A daily journal from 76 years ago
70th day- 295 days follow Fair Cool Worked all day in the grove chopping down dead trees and sawing off dead limbs. Jubbie didn’t come up to work this afternoon. He had to make up some school work. There is a fellow from Manomet has been pestering Archie trying to sell him …
69th day- 296 days follow Snow and fairly mild. When I (was) up to work this A.M. it was snowing like time. It let up about 8:30 so I put in the morning burning up some brush on the fire belt. Archie and Jubbie worked over at their house this afternoon. Finished up burning brush. …
68th day- 297 days follow Fair + mild. Checked on the house on the hill, stopped in at Pick’s on the way home, they were taking Alice up to Gloucester. There was a big gang over at Archie’s taking down the old fashioned chimney. George S. got several truck loads of broken bricks to fill …
67th day- 298 days follow (Arrowheads) Cloudy + cool. Mr. and Mrs. H. were on the hill this A.M. Geo. Crowell came up. Fred Moon came over to look at some work. Bill Whiting came up at 11:35. After dinner Bill came up and we picked up Bill Pierce at his house and went out …
66th day- 299 days follow Fair + warmer. Trimmed trees and shrubbery on around the Horse green. Arche got two donations today one from the Fragment Society for $25.00 and one from the Community Club for $50.00. After work tonight I took a ride up to Jordan’s old golf links and hunted for arrowheads. All …
65th day- 300 days follow Fair and warmer. Good day to work today. There was a big gang went seaclamming on this afternoon’s low tide. Archie and Jubbie worked on their house today. Myran Holman and Charles were here today. Al is coming along with the house, is moving. Margaret Driscoll comes over from Kingston …
64th day- 301 days follow (Arrowheads) Fair and cool. Saw the red squirrel again today. Cotti was up to see Archie’s house and he said if the chimney was torn down and the good bricks saved, he could rebuild it for $150.00. Took a ride over to the sand bank found nothing there, but did …
63rd day- 302 days follow (Arrowheads) Fair and cool. Archie came up on the hill this morning and got some cartons. After dinner I took a ride on my wheel over to the nook. I went to the upper piece and I didn’t find anything. Adrian found one fine point. Then we went over to …
62nd day- 308 days follow “Archie’s fire” (Fuller Hammond) Cleared off fair. When we woke up this A.M. Dot Fraser knocked on the wall and said Archie’s house was on fire. I looked out of the window and the house was one cloud of smoke. We all ran over and got out the furniture and …
61st day- 304 days follow Rain. Mild. Rained hard all day taking off a lot of snow. Thel went to church to hear the new minister. She stayed up to her mother’s to dinner. After supper Thel and I took a ride up to see George + Eleanor for an hour or so. We stopped …
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