A daily journal from 76 years ago
207th day- 159 days follow Fair + Clear Fine day Somewhere I lost a day last week… George came down for me about 11 A.M. We took a ride up by Bubbins’s to see if he had had his plowing harrowed. He had not. I ate dinner with them, and after dinner George and I …
(Tuesday, July 26) 206th day- 160 days follow Fair, light rain in A.M. After supper Thel and I took a ride down to the camp. We stayed there a short time, then took a ride over to White Island Pond to see Bill and Lottie Whiting. Wes was there and Billie Harlow and another fellow. …
Friday, July 23, 1948 Saturday 205th day- 161 days follow (Arrowheads) Fair and Hot Saw Harry up on the hill this A.M. After dinner I went up on the hill and fixed the hot water heater in the barn. Then I took a ride over to the Browne Site. I saw Howard Sampson trimming Geo. …
204th day- 162 days follow Partly Cloudy The big wedding at Whipple’s is to be tomorrow afternoon. Drucy Greenwood and one of the Whipples. When I got home from work Eleanor and the kids were here. The contractors have put up the batter boards for Ski’s house and delivered a lot of cement blocks,sand, and …
Fair and Hot here Cool at Camp Thel and Grandma Holman, Roger Hathaway, and I went down to the camp. Dave had one cement wall up, the south east end. He and I put up the cribbing for the south or front. Dave and I went out for a couple of hours fishing. …
202nd day- 164 days follow Fair and Hot Clear good air I saw a purple finch up on a cedar by the barn. Met Dr. Cunningham up on the hill. He told me he was a friend of Coot Hauthaway. Ricky Greenwood was up on the hill to fix some of the outside lights. …
201st day- 165 days follow Partly Cloudy and Muggy I stopped in at Victoria’s to see her baby on the way home from work. We sat out front of the house for awhile and watched the traffic. Thel went out tonight to some kind of meeting. Ski went horseback riding tonight. She had her horse …
200th day- 166 days follow Partly Cloudy Warm After breakfast Bill and I were out in the motor boat fishing. We caught some shiners for bait, then went across the pond and fished till 12:45 and caught a fine mess of red perch. Bill had a bass on and lot it, but caught a pickerel. …
199th day- 167 days follow Fair + Warm After dinner Eleanor came down with the car and she, Ski, and the kids and I took a ride up to Roger Shevin’s to a M.A.S. meeting. I got there early so I took the boat and went out on the pond fishing. I caught about 20 …
198th day- 168 days follow Fair + Warm There was the largest catch of tuna made in a Provincetown trap today. 41 Tuna that weighed 12 tons. Bud and Ski are here tonight. Fixed up some screens and put them on the house. Bud and Ski went off with the car.
