A daily journal from 76 years ago
2nd day - 363 days follow Temp 32 Fair and cooler All of the ice has gone out of the harbor. John Finney’s men Howard Wood, Fred Dreese, and Malaguti were up on the hill today hauling out the stumps of the trees that blew down in the hurricane. Thel came up on the hill …
1st day - 364 days follow Rain Temp 55 Warm and showers (Heavy) Worked up on the hill all the morning. Mr H. Mrs H and Dimp was there. Ernest was there when I first got there. Saw a weasel chase a red squirrel up a 25 foot pitch pine, the squirrel went up clear …
366th day - the last day Well this is the last day of 1944. I hope the war will end in our favor soon in 45. Went up on the hill and started up the hot water, came home by Picks, noone there but the pups, so I went down to the Beach Club and …
365th day - 1 days follow Fair and warmer. Mrs. H called me up at noon, she said Mr. H might come down this afternoon and she and Martha would be down tomorrow. Ski worked up at the store today, and Eleanor went down to Mabbits. Put some more sea weed on the garden, will …
364th day - 2 days follow Awful cold and high wind. Saw the flock of quail in the gully in back of the barn. All the kids in the neighborhood were up on the bog skating today. Wanetta was in here this afternoon. haven’t seen anything of the fox up on the hill lately. Put …
363rd day - 3 days follow Fair and very windy. Snowed hard last night, several inches, then turned into pouring rain, then froze. Result, roads are like glass, so icy. Chopped some more trees today. The Greenwoods left this morning. Set a trap for a rat in my pit I burn rubbish in. Stopped in …
362nd day - 4 days follow Cold and clear. Worked on the trees today. Mrs. Greenwood Mrs Hornblower called me up and gave me a message for Ernest Peters. Took a note over to Ernest. Called up Mr. Roberts at the Cordage about the blue print of the sign, he said he has got it …
361st day - 5 days follow Called Lewis Briar again this morning and got him. Chopped wood and brush today. A quail flew up against one of the windows on the hill, but didn’t hurt it any. They have killed themselves that way before. Lewis Briar was here and fixed our furnace and stove burner. …
360th day - 6 days follow Christmas We all slept late this A.M, Warm raining. I hunted rabbits on the way up to the hill, saw none. Stopped in at Picks on the way home, noone there. Stopped in at the Hathaways. I got three pipes, two one pound tins of tobacco 1½ lb on …
359th day - 7 days follow Wild and cloudy. Went up on the hill and stopped in at Walders on the way back, they were having their xmas tree for Eric and David. Dotty called up and said they won’t be down till this afternoon. Carl Covell came in with Freddie and brought some presents, …
Arrowheads Up the Hill 