A daily journal from 76 years ago
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.
263rd day-103 days follow Fair + Warm This morning Thel and I went up and got George, Eleanor, and the two kids and took a ride up to Benson’s Animal Farm. We had a picnic lunch before we went in to see the animals. The kids had a wonderful time as they hadn’t before seen …
262nd day- 104 days follow (Arrowheads) Fair + Warmer Saw Harry and Dimp up on the hill this morning. I took a ride with Thel, Marie, + Suzanne up to Johnson’s Stand then over to the Browne site. I dug quite a bit this afternoon, found one good triangular white quartz arrowhead, good, and one …
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