A daily journal from 76 years ago
ToDay is the Birthday of Fair and warm, wind So. Mary, Martha, and a girlfriend and Nettie are on the hill. Saw a large flock of geese. Got a letter from Harry Hornblower. The Holman brothers got three deer down Maine. Bill and I went up to Browns this afternoon and dug in the new …
ToDay is the Birthday of Fair and warm, fine day Wind So. Geo Cromwell came up on the hill this morning and gave me a box of cranberries. Came home at noon around by the river, saw a fowl in the reeds by the Beach Club, thought it was a coot or Mud Hen. Aunt …
ToDay is the Birthday of Marie Eleanor Brewer Fair and cool, wind West. Saw a flock of 14 geese today. Fred Moon came over this A.M. and got a piece of glass. Raked up grass all day. After supper, Thel, Earle’s wife, and I went up to Rock, we took up 3 turkeys and got …
ToDay is the Birthday of Fair and cool wind No. Arthur was up on the hill this morning and got the ashes. Drained the water out of the two pools in the top pool I found a line eel about the size of a pencil. It must have come thru the water system when it …
ToDay is the Birthday From Thel 9.00 Light showers cool wind No. Raked up rubbish around the house this morning. Percy Finney called across the garden ad said that a fox got one of his chickens last night. Mrs. Holman was here this afternoon. This morning Mrs Corey was in. Put antifreeze in Thel’s car. …
ToDay is the Birthday Cool and cloudy, wind So. Stopped in to see Eric tonight on my way from work, he wasn’t home. Eleanor got a letter from Eddie today, he is with George in the California desert. There are a lot of juncos around now. A couple of days ago I saw a Sharp …
ToDay is the Birthday Fair and cool, wind No. Went up on the hill this morning, saw Mr. and Mrs. H and Ernest Peter, came back and got my eel spear and went down to the Beach Club and speared three eels, 2 large and one small. Someone has the marsh all plastered with muskrat …
ToDay is the Birthday Partly cloudy, cool, wind NoW. Mrs. H arrived on the hill at 11-45-AM, she said Martha is still in the hospital, I think she is going hunting this afternoon. Started in at noon and took off the screens, took out the storm windows, cleaned them and all the windows inside and …
ToDay is the Birthday of $9.00 from Thel Fair and cool, put in the a.m. cleaning up the house. Mrs. H called up at noon, she said they might not come down this weekend as Martha is in the hospital with Pink eye. Mrs. Ed Holman is feeling a little under the weather. Thel has …
ToDay is the Birthday of This morning Bill came up and we went over to the Nook Farm and dug. He got two bone awls and two nice white arrowheads. I found nothing. We went up to Bill’s and ate a lunch, then took a ride up to Hanover to Doane Farm and I found …
Arrowheads Up the Hill 