The seven generations of women who have owned the griddleThe seven generations of women who have owned the griddle
Mary Adams Colburn - 4-great-grandmother
Thankful Colburn Hills - 3- great-grandmother
Rachel Hills Taylor - great, great-grandmother
Mary Ella Taylor Butterfield - great-grandmother
Ida Rachel Butterfield James - grandmother
Ruth James English - mother
Jane English
The towns and houses
the griddle has lived in and places it was used:
Farmhouse -- Hancock, New Hampshire
Brick farmhouse, then house in village -- Dunstable, Massachusett
House with columns on Liberty Street -- Waltham, Massachusetts
Campsite on Mt. Chocorua, New Hampshire
Farm on Sagamore creek -- Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Big house with porches on Dale Street -- Waltham, Massachusetts
Camping and Whippoorwill Camp -- Dunstable, Massachusetts
Camping in Montana
Rocky Hill Camp - Dunstable Massachusetts
1765 colonial -- Topsfield, Massachusetts
Camping while cabin is built in Jackson, New Hampshire
1790 colonial -- Tamworth, New Hampshire
Small ranch house with mountain view -- Mount Shasta, California
Summer cabin that grew and grew -- Jackson. New Hampshire
Ballooning brunch near Mount Shasta, California
The kinds of stoves the griddle
was used on, including:
Open fireplace - Thankful in Hancock, maybe Rachel in Dunstable
Cast iron wood and coal cookstoves - Rachel and Mary Ella in the brick house on the hill in Dustable, also Ida Rachel in Portsmouth
Wood-gas combination cookstove - Ida Rachel in Waltham - Dale St 1919-1949
Electric cookstove - Ruth in Topsfield 1949-1970, Heather in Jackson 2000, Heather & Jane in Vermont 2004
Campfire - Ida Rachel at Chocorua in 1903, Ida Rachel in Montana 1934, Ruth in Jackson 1952, Jane in Topsfield backyard in 1953
Sheet metal woodstove - Ida Rachel in 1922 camping while Whippoorwill camp is built, Ida Rachel and Ruth at Whippoorwill and Rocky Hill camps
Gasoline campstove - Ruth during hurricane Carol in 1954
Gas-propane cookstove - Jane in Mt Shasta 1992
Solar hotplate - Jane and Heather in Mt Shasta in 2002
The
kinds of food cooked on it, with recipes from each
generation that owned the griddle
This is
a work of historical
fiction
We start with stories from Jane and Ben, Jr.'s recollections, writings by Ida Rachel Butterfield James, her husband Walter H James, and her sister Lucy Ardena Butterfield, along with many old photographs, supplemented with historical material from museum and internet research. Then we let our imaginations create possible scenes where the griddle was used. Each page has text, both descriptive and conversational, and old photographs. See the current list of story ideas