A daily journal from 76 years ago
63rd day- 302 days follow Fair + Warmer Very fine day Started to paint the screens today. If the snow was off it would have been like Spring. Painted screens this afternoon. Picked over some old arrowhead stock that has been down in the garage for years, some of it I found years ago. President …
62nd day- 303 days follow Fair + a (?) Warmer I saw about 20 robins up on the hill and a red-wing blackbird on Cliff St. I stopped at Pick’s on the way home from work. There was no one home. Thel took me over to town this morning. I got a hair cut and …
61st day- 304 days follow Fair + Cool I saw a robin and two purple finches up on the hill. I went to work along the outside of the beach, expected to see some things washed up but I never saw the beach so clean after a storm. The roads are very icy today. Eleanor …
60th day- 306 days follow Snow + Windy March came in like a lion this morning. The clocks stopped at 8:10 A.M. on account of down wires. I went up on the hill and over to the store. It was lighted with kerosene lamps. I got picked up in front of Chick Howland’s and got …
59th day- 306 days follow (Another Lee maybe) Cloudy + Cool Raked up and wheeled off rubbish all the morning. And did the same this afternoon. I stopped in to see Pic and the kids on the way home. Pic told me that Gretchen called her up and said she is expecting in October. …
58th day- 307 days follow Fair + Cold David and his family were here for dinner and stayed for the afternoon. Bill was up for a short while this morning. He came to see the artifacts I found yesterday. Dave, Dot, and the kids looked fine. When Dave’s family was leaving, Art Cox and family …
(Arrowheads) Cloudy + Cool After dinner I took a walk up to the Bubins’ site and found that the camp site has been plowed. It is forty years or so since I used to hunt it when Eben Morton owned the land. So I had the best hunt today I have had for years. I …
(Cat) Rain + Cooler Wheeled rankings to the dump all the morning. Rained so hard after dinner I stayed home. When I got up this morning there was a black + white half grown cat at the back door. It had double paws in front. When I came home at noon it was in the …
(Arrowheads) Fair + Warm Fine today just like spring. Eleanor and the girls were here for dinner. Eleanor’s dog ran away. I hope she (?) Bill came up just after we finished dinner and he and I took a ride down to Sagamore and we found our old favorite hunting place has been all bulldozed …
Fair + Mild Raked up rubbish in the grove all day. I saw the partridge on the front drive this afternoon. Stopped in to see Pic and the boys on my way home from work. Warren Davis’s wife had a son Monday. The Hamilton boy was over at Victoria’s tonight. I haven’t seen a blue …
Arrowheads Up the Hill 