A daily journal from 76 years ago
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 …
261st day- 105 days follow Fair + Cool We had our first frost this morning. Bill Whiting came up on the hill this A.M. He came up from the trial of the fellow from Webster that the police caught stealing trout one night last week. Bill won his case. The fellow had three fish and …
