A daily journal from 76 years ago
211th day- 155 days follow Fair + hot Clear AM Jubbie and I trimmed all day around the lawns and flower beds. Martha has two girl friends on the hill visiting. The masons are coming right along with Ski’s cellar. Helen Finney is still around here. There was a terrible thunder storm in Providence yesterday …
Jubbie took the day off to go to Providence. Thel came and got me after work in a thunder storm. She had Skipper Melville with her. We took a ride up to the store then over to the Town Wharf, saw Ski and Bud in town. Took Skipper back to the stand, came home and …
209th day- 157 days follow Partly Cloudy Jubbie worked all day. Fred Moon was up all day. Martha and her boy friend were around all day. Fire Chief Wood called me up for a donation. Bud and Ski were here this evening. I thought a woodchuck was eating up the flower bed at the end …
208th day- 158 days follow Fair + Warm Worked on the cutting garden most of the day. Jubbie worked all day, the first time this season. Martha and a boy friend were on the hill today. He had a car with Illinois number plates. Fred Moon was on the hill all day. The Hummingbird has …
207th day- 159 days follow Fair + Clear Fine day Somewhere I lost a day last week… George came down for me about 11 A.M. We took a ride up by Bubbins’s to see if he had had his plowing harrowed. He had not. I ate dinner with them, and after dinner George and I …
(Tuesday, July 26) 206th day- 160 days follow Fair, light rain in A.M. After supper Thel and I took a ride down to the camp. We stayed there a short time, then took a ride over to White Island Pond to see Bill and Lottie Whiting. Wes was there and Billie Harlow and another fellow. …
Friday, July 23, 1948 Saturday 205th day- 161 days follow (Arrowheads) Fair and Hot Saw Harry up on the hill this A.M. After dinner I went up on the hill and fixed the hot water heater in the barn. Then I took a ride over to the Browne Site. I saw Howard Sampson trimming Geo. …
204th day- 162 days follow Partly Cloudy The big wedding at Whipple’s is to be tomorrow afternoon. Drucy Greenwood and one of the Whipples. When I got home from work Eleanor and the kids were here. The contractors have put up the batter boards for Ski’s house and delivered a lot of cement blocks,sand, and …
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. …
Arrowheads Up the Hill 