347th day- 18 days follow Apparently Jesse missed writing on this day, as the entry has been labeled as Sunday.
Friday, Dec. 12, 1947
346th day- 19 days follow Fair + Cold Jubbie and I burned on the dump. It didn’t [do] too good as it was quite wet. I shot another rabbit on the way home from work at noon. After dinner I went to town and got a haircut. When I came home Thel and I went …
Thursday, Dec. 11, 1947
345th day- 20 days follow Fair + Warmer Snowed about three [ Inches] last night so I burned brush today. Wrote a letter to Harry Hornblower last night. Jubbie didn’t work today. After supper Archie and [I] went to town to see the Polo game. It was pretty good, but rather one sided. Salem won …
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 1947
344th day- 21 days follow Fair + Cool May called up Thel and she said that Gertie’s friend has asked her to marry him. He looks like a decent kind of fellow. Worked in the cellar this A.M. Jubbie and I worked in the grove in back of the barn. I jumped a partridge in …
Tuesday, Dec. 9, 1947
343rd day- 22 days follow Fair + Cold Worked in the cellar whitewashed in the cellar. In the afternoon Jubbie and I worked on the trees. Stopped in at Pick’s on the way home from work. I heard that Mrs. Fraser has opened a baby shoe store on the corner of Summer St. Helen Finney …
Monday, Dec. 8, 1947
342nd day- 23 days follow Warm + Showers Jennie Chandler plowed up land is all tracked up by people hunting for relics. Showers this A.M. so I did some white washing in the big house cellar. Geo., Ski, and Bud did some digging in the garden for the house foundation. The whole Hathaway family were …
Sunday, Dec. 7, 1947
341st day- 24 days follow Fair + Mild Thel took me over to Chas. Sherman’s at 8:30 A.M. He and I went up to Boston to the University Club to a meeting of the executive members of the M.A.S. We were there from 10:00 A.M. to 6 P.M. in the afternoon. We ate dinner at …
Saturday, Dec. 6, 1947
3340th day- 25 days follow Fair + Cool Thel took George and I up to Valley’s road at 7 A.M. and we went into the woods on the north side and found the tracks of two does. We trailed them across the tar highway and over the hills thru the scrub oaks to a big …
Friday, Dec. 5, 1947
339th day- 26 days follow Cloudy + Snow + rain Worked up on the hill this A.M. and got my flower beds covered for the winter. After dinner Thel took me in the snow storm up by Sym[ington’s] to the Long Pond Road around by Cotton Pond, down the Beaver Dam Road to the I …
Thursday, Dec. 4, 1947
338th day- 27 days follow Fair + Warmer Bolt and I hunted some up around the Golf Links first thing this A.M. From there we went up to the Beaver Dam Road and I took the road towards Right’s place. All I saw was a red squirrel. Four raccoons had been all over the Beaver …
Arrowheads Up the Hill 