Cleared off firs [?} today. I saw Bud, Priscilla,and their kids on the hill. Eleanor Prescho was babysitting for Priscilla. Martha is down too. Thel took me down to the camp after dinner. Dave and his family and the rest were all there but Alice. I went out and tried the fishing. It was no …
Friday, August 4, 1950
This afternoon Pic came up on the hill about 4 P.M. and with her kids and Howard’s we all went down to the Baptist Church and got dressed for the Pilgrim’s Progress. There was quite a crowd of us from this end of town. Eleanor came over with Marie and Suzanne. Eleanor took some snap …
Thursday, August 3, 1950
Light showers started at noon. We put top dressing on the bowling green. The woodchucks have been eating heck out of my squashes up on the hill. After looking around I found two holes and put a trap in each. I saw in the Old Colony Memorial that Tom Cassidy had died. He was five …
Wednesday, August 2, 1950
(Arrowheads) Worked in the cutting garden. Jubbie took me over to River Street after work and I hunted around Dr. Bradley’s and I found a white quartz triangular point one corner gone. Then I went over to Westgate’s and there I found one chard of pottery and one white quartz scraper. Then I went over …
Tuesday, August 1, 1950
Thel and I got up at 5A.M. and at ¼ of six we walked over to our camp just as Bud came out to five us a ride back here. At noon it started thunder and rain, we had one hour of very heavy rain and three of a milder sort. It certainly was a …
Monday, July 31, 1950
Hot Hot Hot Thel came up from the camp and got me at 5 P.M. We went up by Symington’s and Long Pond. We picked up two young boys up at Long Pond and gave them a ride as far as the bottom of Little Sandy Pond. Another car came along and gave them a …
Sunday, July 30, 1950
Thel took Ski and I down to the camp after dinner. Gary and I were fishing and just after dark I caught a fine large mouth bass in our cove. Carlie got two fine fish one 19 ½ in pickerel and a 1 ½ lb. bass. I painted some on the inside of my small …
Saturday, July 29, 1950
Fair + Hot The rug man came down with his women folks to look at the flower gardens. I picked about 20 squashes today. The rabbits are eating them some. Mr. H. and Mrs. H. went over to Clark’s Island to have a picnic.
Friday, July 28, 1950
Fair and Hot Jubbie and I finished up taking the crabgrass out of the pool green. Mrs. H’s rug man was down from Boston to look over some rugs in the HH barn. George, Eleanor and the kids came down tonight for a short visit. They were after their dog but she skipped them. There …
Thursday, July 27, 1950
Fair + Hot We picked out crab grass all day today. Did a little mowing after supper, too hot to do much. Bud and Ski went down to Bert’s for supper. Some one was talking to Thel on the phone about buying pups at noon when I went to work.
Arrowheads Up the Hill 