With permission of Peter Spier
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Mother Goose came to New Castle in 1965
Selections from 'To Market, To Market' by Peter Spier
| The church doors they stood open | Immanuel Church interior |
| The bell-ropes they were made of hay | Immanuel Churchyard |
| To Market, To Market To Buy A Fat Pig | The Green |
| To Market, To Market To Buy A Fat Hog | Packet Alley |
| Cheese and bread for gentlemen | Rear of Courthouse |
| To Market, to market, to buy a plum bun | Delaware St. by Courthouse |
| This is silver Saturday | Birdseye view |
| Afterword | Biographical note(1967) |
Recollections about New Castle by Peter Spier (2008)
Here a few words about my "discovery" of New Castle. In 1960, my wife and were married for not quite two years, I was asked to make a series of murals for the childrens' section of the Winterthur Museum. We did live in an apartment on the museum grounds, and during evenings, and on weekends explored the neighborhood. You can imagine our delight when we found New Castle, where we returned tens of times during our Winterthur months. In the years that followed on our way south we never failed to get off the main road to visit New Castle with it's many happy memories, and do so to this day! In 1965 I was planning a series of four books, the "Mother Goose Library", and I chose New Castle as the setting for 'To Market! To Market!", # 2 in the series. By that time we did have two small children, and I went alone to New Castle to make the sketches of the many details I would need for the book, which took about one week.The farm scenes, by the way, were drawn at the Winterthur farm. Those "children" are by now 47 and 45, we are grandparents, and next month we'll be married for half a century. Those fifty years cover countless happy memories, of which New Castle is a fondly remembered part. All good wishes, Peter Spier
