A daily journal from 76 years ago
(Arrowheads) Cloudy + Cool After dinner I took a walk up to the Bubins’ site and found that the camp site has been plowed. It is forty years or so since I used to hunt it when Eben Morton owned the land. So I had the best hunt today I have had for years. I …
(Cat) Rain + Cooler Wheeled rankings to the dump all the morning. Rained so hard after dinner I stayed home. When I got up this morning there was a black + white half grown cat at the back door. It had double paws in front. When I came home at noon it was in the …
(Arrowheads) Fair + Warm Fine today just like spring. Eleanor and the girls were here for dinner. Eleanor’s dog ran away. I hope she (?) Bill came up just after we finished dinner and he and I took a ride down to Sagamore and we found our old favorite hunting place has been all bulldozed …
Fair + Mild Raked up rubbish in the grove all day. I saw the partridge on the front drive this afternoon. Stopped in to see Pic and the boys on my way home from work. Warren Davis’s wife had a son Monday. The Hamilton boy was over at Victoria’s tonight. I haven’t seen a blue …
(Arrowheads) Cloudy + Snow Washington’s birthday. This morning I took a walk over by H. H. garden, found nothing, then over to the sand bank, found a few chips there, over to Dick Adams’ a few flakes there, then Brother Mabbitt’s, found a few flakes there. Then in back of the hotel garage. Found one …
Cloudy + Cooler Geo. was down here at Ski’s putting in an oil burner. Eleanor and the kids and Bud + Gary were here for dinner too. Geo. and Eleanor went to Boston to the Ice Follies last night. They said it was wonderful. Ski came in and got supper for Grandma Holman and I. …
Fair + Warm This has been another wonderful day. Pruned trees this A.M. After dinner Bill came up and we took a ride down to the cemetery at the foot of G.H. Pond. He brought me back to town so Andrew, Dick Murphy, and I could cook up the supper for the M.A.S. We had …
Fair + Cool I saw two robins up on the hill today. Arthur was up to get the suitcases to take to Boston. Grandma Holman went up to her house for a visit today. I stopped in to see Pic and the boys on my way home from work tonight. Dr. Hamilton’s boy was there …
Burned up rubbish all day. Archie, Bubbie, Henry, and I went over to the Polo game tonight. It was a fine game. Plymouth lost by a score of 12 to eleven. It was snowing when we came home. Thursday, Feb. 18, 1949 About two inches of snow on the ground this morning. I tracked the …
Cloudy + Mild The partridges are still around up on the hill. Two of them were by the brush pile. Bramhall was up to read the meter. I saw six marsh quail in the willow tree in the valley. Tom Doten and Sirrico and Beals were burning grass over on Meyer’s this afternoon so I …
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