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Jim Whidden, master woodworker and housewright, uses a wooden sledgehammer to pound a post into place.
Ipswich: Jim Whidden, master woodworker and housewright, uses a t-auger drill to draw-bore holes for pegs holding studs together. Traditional tools, materials and construction methods of the First Period (1625�725) are used for the house. photo by Mark Teiwes / Salem News
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Mark teiwes/Staff photos A crew raises a post-and-beam wal,l part of a recreation of a 1657 timber frame house, on the lawn of Ipswich's Whipple House on Saturday.

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September 6, 2010

The Salem News Mon Sep 06, 2010, 07:57 AM EDT

IPSWICH — It was a scene right out of the 17th century.

The timber frame was raised Saturday for a re-creation of a small house from 1657, which is being built with traditional tools, materials and construction methods as a live, ongoing exhibit for the Ipswich Museum. The house, when completed, will show how a common person lived at the time, often in a one-room house. This one is being built to match a description in town records of a home built for Alexander Knight — and it will be called the Alexander Knight House.

The house can be seen on the lawn next to the Whipple House at 54 S. Main St.

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Dominique Hans, 38, of 8 Heritage Drive, pleaded not guilty in Salem District Court to charges of assault and battery and being disorderly, stemming from an incident on board a school bus on Proctor Street Thursday.
Police and prosecutors say Hans marched on board the bus, ignoring a driver’s request to stop, and asked her 6-year-old son to point out a child he said had hit him earlier this week.
“I didn’t hit that little girl,” said Hans.
Hans told reporters outside court that she was upset after she said school officials failed to respond to her complaint about the earlier incident involving her son.
“I understand her position,” Hans said of the mother of the little girl. “I trespassed. I felt I needed to protect my son, which (the driver) did not do for him.”
Hans remains free on $1,000 cash bail posted last night at the Salem policestation. Judge Robert Brennan ordered her to have no unsupervised contact with children under 12 except for her own, to stay away from the girl’s school bus stop, the girl and her family, and to follow any orders issued by the Department of Children and Families while the case is pending.
She is due back in court on March 15.
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