A daily journal from 76 years ago
153rd day- 212 days follow Fair + Warm Chopped down some trees in front of the house and the big poplar by the barn. I rode over to town with Arthur to [deliver] a load of fireplace wood down to the Plymouth Plantation House. Went up to the Town House and paid my water tax. …
152nd day- 213 days follow Foggy + Cool Did some transplanting today. This morning I saw Mr. and Mrs. H. + Harry. Mr. H. gave me a sweater he brought from Bermuda. It is kind of gaudy but a swell sweater. The price tag I saw on it before the boss gave it to me …
151st day- 214 days follow Fair + Cool Mowed grass around the house. Mary, the cook, was on the hill all day. Mr. and Mrs. H. went to the Vineyard. Eleanor and the kids were down here today. I stopped in to see Pic and the kids on the way home from work. They all …
150th day- 215 days follow Fair + Cool Went up on the hill. Mr. and Mrs. H. were there overnight. I didn’t see them. Bill came up and he and I went down to the site that we found Sat., at Sandwich Beach. We dug for an hour or so till Thel and Lottie came. …
149th day, 216 days follow Thunder and Showers I rode up to George’s with him and Dave came up from the camp and I took my boat from H.H. boat[house] down to the bridge and we put it on Dave’s trailer. Then we picked up George and all went down to the camp and drove …
148th day- 217 days follow (Arrowheads) Stopped at Pick’s on the way home at noon. Walder and Pic are going to Boston this afternoon. Barbra Cobb and her husband are going to be babysitters. Bill came up after dinner. He and I took a ride down to Sagamore to the bulldozed field. I found three …
147th day- 218 days follow Rain Cold The women worked up on [the] hill all day. Stopped in a few minutes to see Pic and the kids. I guess that they are getting over the measles.
146th day- 219 days follow (Raccoon) Cloudy + Rain Planted the buckwheat. Got a postal from Mrs. H. from Bermuda. When I got up on the hill this A.M. and took a look at the trap and there was a big raccoon in it, and from the way things were torn up, his front leg …
145th day- 220 days follow Fair + Cool Worked all day on the cutting garden. I stopped in at Pick’s tonight. Her kids are feeling pretty good. They should be breaking out in measle blotches tomorrow if they are going to have them. I ate dinner and supper at Ski’s. After supper I mowed all …
144th day- 221 days follow (Woodchuck) Fair + Warm Worked all day in the cutting garden. When I took a look at the cutting garden this morning I felt sick, for a woodchuck had been in it and cleaned out all of my cosmos. They were about a foot tall and doing fine. He ate …
Arrowheads Up the Hill 