A daily journal from 76 years ago
Fair and Hot here Cool at Camp Thel and Grandma Holman, Roger Hathaway, and I went down to the camp. Dave had one cement wall up, the south east end. He and I put up the cribbing for the south or front. Dave and I went out for a couple of hours fishing. …
202nd day- 164 days follow Fair and Hot Clear good air I saw a purple finch up on a cedar by the barn. Met Dr. Cunningham up on the hill. He told me he was a friend of Coot Hauthaway. Ricky Greenwood was up on the hill to fix some of the outside lights. …
201st day- 165 days follow Partly Cloudy and Muggy I stopped in at Victoria’s to see her baby on the way home from work. We sat out front of the house for awhile and watched the traffic. Thel went out tonight to some kind of meeting. Ski went horseback riding tonight. She had her horse …
200th day- 166 days follow Partly Cloudy Warm After breakfast Bill and I were out in the motor boat fishing. We caught some shiners for bait, then went across the pond and fished till 12:45 and caught a fine mess of red perch. Bill had a bass on and lot it, but caught a pickerel. …
199th day- 167 days follow Fair + Warm After dinner Eleanor came down with the car and she, Ski, and the kids and I took a ride up to Roger Shevin’s to a M.A.S. meeting. I got there early so I took the boat and went out on the pond fishing. I caught about 20 …
198th day- 168 days follow Fair + Warm There was the largest catch of tuna made in a Provincetown trap today. 41 Tuna that weighed 12 tons. Bud and Ski are here tonight. Fixed up some screens and put them on the house. Bud and Ski went off with the car.
197th day- 169 days follow Fair + not too hot Jubbie mowed brush today . He said he and Johnnie Davis went around the dumps picking up junk and made 12 dollars? Eleanor and the kids came down just before supper time. There is still slews of wood ticks still around.
196th day- 170 days follow Rain in A.M. Clearing P.M. I mowed brush on the front drive. After supper Thel and I took a ride up to Gellar’s and up to Beaver Dam Road. When we got almost up to the Long Pond Road I got out of the car and picked three pints of …
195th day- 171 days follow Fair + hot Thel took me up to Eleanor’s for my supper tonight, as she and Eleanor were going out to Post Chief’s lobster supper. George and I played four games of horseshoes. I won them all. The women got back about 10:30.
194th day- 172 days follow Fair + Hot Thel and I saw a big woodchuck cross the top of the front drive when she took me to work. Run four sprinklers all day. Thel picked me up after work tonight. Bud and Ski are working their lot.
Arrowheads Up the Hill 