Templeton Then ~ Templeton Now ~ 250th

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Time sure does fly…feels like this time yesterday when…times, they are changing….time, it just keeps marching on….Tuesday Girl thinks that it’s time….

Time…can you imagine what it was like to just be starting out 250 years ago?  Can you imagine being the first settler here in our town of Templeton?  Can you imagine what it may have been like here without all the of the luxuries we have today?  Well, I for one must say that I cannot.   Though I will say that because of the great people that chose to come to Narragansett No. 6 and lay the foundation for our future, we now have the privilege to call Templeton and it’s villages our home.

The founders of our town and the people through the years really loved Templeton and I wanted to share a sonnet, I guess one would call it, from 1886 written by Charles Wellington Lord:

Old Templeton
Mightily heave thy hills; the breast of the sacred Earth mother:
Silent and dark thy vales; where the thrush will resound in the twilight.
Dear are the upland farms; the hallowed abodes of the fathers:
Homely the pasture brown; with only the hardhack for heather.
Sweet was the woodland turn; fair crown of thy daughter departed:
Merry thy sparkling brooks; and placid the course of the trout stream.
Peerless were erst thy pines; but now they are sailing the ocean:
Swiftly their sisters rise; for the pine on her hills is eternal.
Wild is the western light that streams from the crest of the church hill:
Weird is the waning moon, as she sleeps on the mist of the valley:
Dark and defiant the storms that sweep from Vermont o’er the midland.
Noble and strong on Thee looks Monadnock, the prince of the mountains:
Many thy suitors bold, from him to the shapely Watatic.
Lovely and grand art thou, fair Templeton, queen of the highland.

How beautiful is that?  I realize we do not speak in such flowery and elegant language any longer, but I feel this speaks volumes of how Charles Lord loved our town and it’s surroundings.  I am certain he was not the only one to feel this way as Elizabeth Wellington Lord also spoke very fondly of Templeton and it’s fine people as she called them.  How do we feel today about our beautiful town and all that we have accomplished through the years and the fine people we have set out to be?  How about the local businesses that help our town thrive and move us forward to better things to come?

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