A daily journal from 76 years ago
245th day - 121 days follow Fair I gave Redo Nari a couple of rockets to the Policeman's ball. Dave and Dot left for Winthrop at Noon with Thel, they picked up May and went in to see Toot. He was not so well. The first thing I did up on the hill this morning …
244th day - 122 days follow Fair Eels This morning Harry, his father, mother, wife, Martha and I went over the surveyed line of the proposed highway that is to be built after the war. We ended up in the golf links, we walked back along the bluff in front of the hotel. Mrs Hornblower …
243rd day - 123 days follow Fair warmer Saw Harry and [...] this morning. Helped Mrs. H pick some beach plums. Worked in the bowling green. Picked a bushel of tomatoes. I was watering with a hose by hand and a hummingbird flew out of the grove and stopped in the air just in front …
242nd day - 124 days follow Fair to Cloudy Harry, his wife, and Jr. arrived at 9-40 AM. I went up just before dinner and had a good look at Henry 3, looks a good deal like Harry. Stopped in to see Eric on my way home from work tonight and miss Smith was there …
241st day - 125 days follow Fair Cool Did all kinds of chores this AM getting ready for Harry’s baby. When I got home from work at noon there was a letter for me from George, he is in England and likes it there, the first word we had heard from him for about …
240th day - 126 days follow Fair Cool Went up on the hill and did the chores. Bobbie came up and he and Dave and I did some bow and arrow shooting. Mr Driscoll came down to see Dave. When Thel came home from church, Dave, Dottie, Davene, Bob, Ski, Eleanor, Thel and I …
239th day - 127 days follow Fair Cool D.D.S. Thelma took some bananas over to Eric. After dinner I and Percy Finney did some shooting with my bow. The Hathawats came back from the pond this afternoon, they said they had a fine week. I got a letter from Henry Hornblower. This is a …
238th day - 128 days follow Fair Cool Went up on the hill and did the chores then came home and dressed up and packed my specimens to take up to the Peabody Museum in Cambridge. THen we went over and picked up May and went up to Whitman and picked up Millie and …
237th day - 129 days follow Fair Cool My father David Brewer Father was drowned in Hoits Pond forty three years ago today. Mrs. H and I bought 2 bushe;s of crab apples for Thel to put up. Martha’s dressing table came today and the crate it was packed in was all to pieces. …
236th day - 130 days follow Fair Had a cord of hard wood come up from the bosses cranberry bog in Rochester. I have known for years that there was an Indian Campsite in Ira’s, Phil Chandler is putting up a fence around the property and I checked up on the post holes and there …
