WOW!

Thanks!

I too noticed the grass and the trees and had come up with a fall timeframe.
However, after all the studying and blowing up of the picture, I never
noticed the woman sitting there. I did notice the man, but not the woman.
Amazing what a second pair of eyes can come up with.

There isn't a town paper, which makes it harder to come up with articles, to
this day the best we have is a monthly paper (and that is only about 3 years
old). I may be able to check the tax records, but of course nothing is on
computer (that's actually what I'm doing as well as scanning in hundreds of
old pictures and trying to get a rough date on them).

The buildings you see in the background are the firestation, which in this
picture was big enough for horse drawn equipment. There was an extension
added to the left side of it and the doors moved to the left side when the
town started getting gas-powered equipment. When that became too big the
department moved to a building which is behind the photographer. The
building to the right is the side of the town hall, although there is a
school across the street. The town did have a highschool that was separate
from the primary schools, although I honestly don't know which ones were in
the area at this time. JR Whipple (owner of the Parker House and Young's
hotels) was a resident and New Boston was a vacation stop as it was about
3-4 hour horse/buggy ride from Boston.

I'll try contacting the names you gave me below and see what else I can dig
up. The picture you pointed me too is very close. Unfortunately the town
was really hoping this would be the first gas-powered piece of fire
equipment. Thank you for the huge lead.

-dave