A daily journal from 76 years ago
Today is the birthday of Fair and hot. 94. Wind So. After dinner Eleanor and I rode our bikes over to Fred Moon’s and borrowed his oars and we fished in the river all afternoon and got nothing. We had a few bites from roaches. Awful hot in the house tonight. Milt Vaughn was down …
Today is the birthday of Fair and hot 96. Wind So. Sure has been a sizzler today. Fried the pep right out of a guy. Tonight Walder and I went sea bass fishing and we fished 2 1/2 hours and didn’t get a strike, just picked up lot of grass on our hooks. Stopped in …
Today is the birthday of Fair and hot today wind So. Mrs. Hornblower read a letter from Harry’s wife, all about his training at the engineers camp. They have also heard from Bud and he is ok up to now. There were notices delivered to hose users that they are from now on limited to …
Today is the birthday of Thel paid me $9.00. Fair and cool wind East. I finished up the Beach Club and after dinner I saw 3 blimps all at one time. The three fish are still in the river. Went over to drill tonight on the base. When I got to the armory the …
Today is the birthday of Fair and hot wind So. Boy was it hot today 92 in the shade. Thelma went off this morning with a gang to weed on Rusty Round’s bog. Worked in the garden some. Eleanor went over to town tonight. We had a hot old thunder storm this evening, and a …
Today is the birthday of Fair and hot wind east Chet and I worked all day at the beach club mowing the lawn. Lewie Cotti was working there. We got some fine snapshots from Dottie. After supper I rode my wheel down to the beach club took my fishing pole, for I saw 3 striped …
Today is the birthday of Fair and hot wind So. Worked in the garden this morning. Myron Holman and his wife were in a few minutes after dinner. Milt Vaughn was down today. After dinner Eleanor took me up to the Four Corners and I went over to the Casino to the Fry girl's wedding. …
Today is the birthday of Fair and hot wind So. W. Mrs. H and I went down to the Beach Club and got some cups for the wedding. Redo was up to fix the faucet in Mrs. H’s bathroom. Thelma and Eleanor went up to Boston to buy some clothes for Eleanor to wear up …
Today is the birthday of Thel paid me $15 dollars. Fair and warm wind So. W. Did odd jobs all day. Went up to Greenwoods at 5PM with Mrs. H. And Martha to get some flowers for the wedding. On the way back we picked up a Box turtle and I cut Martha’s initials on …
Hello all, I'm going to be out of town and without internet access for about a week and a half. I had hoped to do some early scheduling of blog posts before I left, but it's becoming clear that's simply not going to happen. I do apologize, but I'm going to take the next several …
