A daily journal from 76 years ago
157th day- 208 days follow Fair + Hot Trimmed all day on hedges. Mr. H. was there this A.M. Arthur took up a lot of flowers. One of the really great men of the M.A.S. and our president for the last two years died Sunday at his home in Worcester. Dr. W. Elmer Ekblow, one …
156th day- 209 days follow Light Fog + Fair This was a fine day to work. I started to mow brush at 8 A.M. and I mowed my whole lot and got a good part of it raked up. Then I dug a hole in the hill down by the point and got some fine …
155th day- 210 days follow Fair + Warm Saw Mr. H. this morning. Bill W. was up on the hill this A.M. He said he had been under the weather all week, digging last Mon. was too much for him. After dinner I rode down to the camp with Archie and Cozette, had supper, then …
154th day- 211 days follow Fair + Warm Watered and transplanted today. Arthur brought my pails back from Boston. I ate supper. I took a ride up to Ward’s pasture and hoed a few holes, and found some flakes but nothing else. On the way back I stopped in to see Toot and May for …
153rd day- 212 days follow Fair + Warm Chopped down some trees in front of the house and the big poplar by the barn. I rode over to town with Arthur to [deliver] a load of fireplace wood down to the Plymouth Plantation House. Went up to the Town House and paid my water tax. …
152nd day- 213 days follow Foggy + Cool Did some transplanting today. This morning I saw Mr. and Mrs. H. + Harry. Mr. H. gave me a sweater he brought from Bermuda. It is kind of gaudy but a swell sweater. The price tag I saw on it before the boss gave it to me …
151st day- 214 days follow Fair + Cool Mowed grass around the house. Mary, the cook, was on the hill all day. Mr. and Mrs. H. went to the Vineyard. Eleanor and the kids were down here today. I stopped in to see Pic and the kids on the way home from work. They all …
150th day- 215 days follow Fair + Cool Went up on the hill. Mr. and Mrs. H. were there overnight. I didn’t see them. Bill came up and he and I went down to the site that we found Sat., at Sandwich Beach. We dug for an hour or so till Thel and Lottie came. …
149th day, 216 days follow Thunder and Showers I rode up to George’s with him and Dave came up from the camp and I took my boat from H.H. boat[house] down to the bridge and we put it on Dave’s trailer. Then we picked up George and all went down to the camp and drove …
148th day- 217 days follow (Arrowheads) Stopped at Pick’s on the way home at noon. Walder and Pic are going to Boston this afternoon. Barbra Cobb and her husband are going to be babysitters. Bill came up after dinner. He and I took a ride down to Sagamore to the bulldozed field. I found three …
Arrowheads Up the Hill 