A daily journal from 76 years ago
326th day- 39 days follow Fair + Cold We put loam around the roses today. Bill Whiting and Marp [dropped] by. They said Dick Bent dug up a cache of spear blades in Carver. They said that he dug them up in back of a cranberry bog sand bank and that they are about 5 …
325th day- 40 days follow Fair + Cool Mrs. H. finally sold Bud’s dog. I think she got $35.00 for it. Cut brush on the fire strip. Jubbie caught a white setter pup this morning and let it go again. Victoria called up tonight and said her cat is very sick. Grandma Holman was here …
324th day- 41 days follow (Arrowheads) Light, Warm, Showers After breakfast I rode my wheel up to Griffin’s. Saw Mr. Griffin, then went over to the dig and dug for about four hours. It was hard digging today as I dug out two pits, one about four feet by four feet, the other three feet …
323rd day- 42 days follow Fair + Cool Jubbie chopped down some dead trees. Saw Mr. and Mrs. H. They went hunting. I packed a turkey to go to Bud. After dinner Bill Whiting came up and we watched the Harvard Yale football game on T.V. Yale won 29 to 6. George came down at …
322nd day- 42 days follow Cloudy + Cool Jubbie and I burned all day behind the barn. After dinner I went over to the site. Just as I got there Bobbie Doten had one of his fits. After he came out of it I took him up to the furnace room of the cow barn …
321st day- 44 days follow Rain and Cold Mrs. H. got a grouse and a rabbit yesterday. Fernstrum was washing up specimens in the barn this morning. Arthur got me a permit and Jubbie and I burned up brush in back of the barn. I saw a big grey squirrel on the front drive yesterday, …
320th day- 45 days follow Fair + Warm Jubbie finished up the gutters today. Mrs. H. went hunting again today. I went over to the dig just before dinner. They had dug out a lot of pottery and iron. The most important thing found so far is a silver coin about the size of a …
319th day- 45 days follow Fair + Cooler Jubbie has been working on the gutters yesterday and today. Mr. H and Mrs. went hunting again today. Yesterday they got nothing. After dinner I went over to the site and I had good luck for a change. I found a piece of copper about the size …
318th day- 47 days follow Fair + Warm This has been a wonderful day just like Spring. In the afternoon I went over to the site. I dug out a post hole and found a lot of clam shell, a piece of flint, several flakes in it. Helped to clear a lot of stone out …
317th day- 48 days follow Fair + Cold I got up this morning and went over to the site. Karl was there and Harry came later. During the day Koons, Mr. H., Mrs. H. and Bud were over. We got down to the floor on about ¼ of the cellar and we found a lot …
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