A daily journal from 76 years ago
273rd day- 93 days follow Fair + Warm 77 in the shade We got here just before sunset and have a grand view of the mountains in front of us. We rode all day through very different kind of country than yesterday for the inland is far different from the Maine shoreline. Saw more farming …
272nd day- 94 days follow (Vacation) Fair + Warmer We left Davis Island and drove over to West Southport and stopped in a store to inquire for Jesse Brewer* and the store was run by his sister and his granddaughter was there. She drove her car around the bay to where her father, Winston Brewer, …
271st day- 95 days follow (Vacation) Fair + Warmer Thel, Ski, + I went over to town and took in Bud and started on our vacation. We came up Route 1 and shot off for dinner at Standford. I saw a Florida Egret off the turnpike in a salt marsh and a bluebird after we …
270th day- 96 days follow Fair + Warmer This morning Thel and I cleaned up the house, then we took a ride down to the camp. We had dinner and I and Thel went over to Archie’s and I caught a few tiny frogs. I went over into the cove beach at the end of …
269th day- 97 days follow (Arrowheads) Fair + Warmer Helped Bud pack the beach wagon. He, Mr. H. and Mrs. H. went to Martha’s Vineyard at 10:10 A.M. Thel came up after me at Noon. Harry, Dimp, and Hank came while she was there. Priscilla took her nurse and children to Manchester, Mass. Harry came …
268th day- 98 days follow Cloudy + Cool This morning I helped Bud pick up some of his stuff and pack it so he could take it back to Long Island. This afternoon Bud and I took a ride up to Bubbins’ farm. There is about three acres plowed there but it was just harrowed …
267th day- 99 days follow Fair + Cool Worked all day raking up brush on the fire belt. Bill Whiting called me up at noon and he had a letter from Doug Byers stating that he had not received the articles and sketches he sent up to Andover to be published in the Bulletin. Bill …
266th day- 100 days follow (Grapes) Fair + Cool I got a postcard from Jubbie today. This morning I went down to the H.H. lot on the avenue and picked two bushels of wild red grapes. The State Highway Dept. are putting a new surface on the Avenue, some cars were running through ½ an …
265th day- 101 days follow (Arrowheads) Fair + Cool Saw Bud + Priscilla this A.M. Did chores in the house all this morning. Bud has bought a female English Setter puppy. He got it on the back road. It is four months old. Raked up brush on the fire strip after dinner. After work I …
264th day- 102 days follow Showers Well we got a little rain today, a good thunder shower [in the] afternoon. Bud and Priscilla are expected up on the hill tonight. Ski’s house hasn’t arrived yet. Found a dead robin in the barn. It flew into a window. Thel went over to visit Pick.
Arrowheads Up the Hill 