A daily journal from 76 years ago
291st day- 75 days follow Fair + Warm George Stefani gave me a ride over to Bill Whiting’s this morning. He seems to be better I stayed till 12:45 A.M. and just made the bus on the way home. Saw Wes and Ed Whiting. Bud came up after dinner and he brought up a collie …
290th day- 76 days follow Fair + Cool Raked up rubbish on the hill. After dinner Thel went over to town to the church to get things ready for the supper tonight. I rode my wheel up to the Browne site. Mr. Griffin came over, he had a new setter pup. I found one nice …
289th day- 77 days follow Fair + Cool Wind North Mowed brush on the fire strip. The carpenters put in the floor timbers in Ski’s house. Sally came back on the hill this afternoon. I guess she didn’t get the job she expected to. The cows are still out in the pasture. I heard …
288th day- 78 days follow Fair + Cool When we had [finished] supper Thel and I took a ride over to town. She took me up to spend the evening with Bill. He is much better, just a black spot on the bottom of his big toe now. Lottie and Thel went to see the …
287th day- 79 days follow Fair + Warm Geo. Crowell came up on the hill this A.M. to look at Harry’s stove that was in the horse stall. Later one of the C.C.C. Co. trucks came up and got it. Took a little time off this afternoon + went up to the site, dug in …
286th day- 80 days follow Fair + Warm This morning Thel and I took a ride up to Sailor Tom’s and I had oyster stew and Thel had fried clams. From there we went over to see Howard Torrey in Reading and had a good look at his Cape Cod Indian artifacts. We stayed there …
285th day- 81 days follow Mild + Cloudy This has been a big day in baseball. The Boston Braves lost the World Series to Cleveland by a score of 4 and 3. Saw two small snakes and a large hawk and several crows up on the hill. Ski had her day off. Short has had …
284th day- 82 days follow Fair Warm Thel and I took a ride up to Eleanor’s, and we waited about 20 minutes. George and Thel got Eric + David and then all of Eleanor’s family took a ride down to the canal. We had lobster for dinner + they were good. We got them at …
283rd day, 83 days follow Fair + Warm 2 A.M. The boss woke me up out of bed. I had to go up on the hill and let him in the house. The back door was stuck. 5:50 A.M. Thel and I went up to the hotel and got Bill Sherman’s wife, came back …
282nd day- 84 days follow Partly Cloudy + Cool This is the (first) filler in my ever sharp pen that has ever leaked. They are not supposed to . Redo was up on the hill and he fixed the leak in the sink. I stopped to see Pic and the boys on my way home …
Arrowheads Up the Hill 