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May 1936

The excitement in March as run out and has left May full of just the usual. Who will dance with Babu at the innumerable dances and socials that she goes to this month? What demeanor will Drobey be in when she sees him and will walking right by upset him? Will or won’t Jaime continue…

All About Bruno

March, 1936 was such an exciting month to transcribe. There was the New England flood of the century and Babu was out taking pictures, but as before, a larger conflict filters its way through. In these pages there have been these reverberations of history, not just personal history but national history, that sometimes collide with…

Sharing The Start of 1936

It felt so good to sit down with Babu again and share these journals. She read January 1936 and I asked her what jumped out to her. She said she thinks she really liked going to Bay Path College. That put a smile on my face. I shared with her that I loved reading about…

Thank you for being genuine, blogosphere.

If you read yesterday’s post, you know that I said that even though I have been away from this project for a month, that it has been on my mind for two reasons. I explained the first reason yesterday, that, unfortunately, I know I wont have Babu around forever to share her history with her,…

Babu Update (and a bit of an update on me;)

Happy December everyone! I have been away from the blog and the entire transcribing project for a while, but it has never been far from my mind, for two reasons. I’ll get to those later. First, Babu is fine. To elaborate further, she’s developed eczema over her whole body which we have a hard time…

March+April 1936 She’s Still Talking to Angels

Victoria is still at it. I rushed to transcribe April to see if I could get some resolution to what this Angel Speaker is up to. Not yet, but Babu is holding on to both her intrigue and belief, despite warnings. Tuesday, March 3rd, 1936 Got a letter from Veronica. She told me of all…

March 1936 – The Great Flood Excerpts

Thursday, March 12th, 1936 It’s been raining all week so far. If the river doesn’t stop rising conditions are going to become drastic. Havoc has already been done in some places. Some small bridges and dams were swept away and trolleys didn’t run for a while today. Miss Dickey ordered us out of the room…

March, 1936 The Greatest Flood in History and She’s Out Taking Pictures

During March, 1936, in our home of New England, there was the largest flood there had ever been in this area. And that record hasn’t been beaten since, lucky for us. I found this article The Great New England Flood and it reports: Nobody in New England had ever seen anything like it. Nobody ever…

Winter 1935-1936 Excerpts

Some difficult times: Tuesday, December 10th, 1935 Oh lord please don’t let a thing like a misunderstanding come between friends, as between J. and me. It’s horrible. We had an election of office. I was elected secretary. J. Sat with Teddy and Drobey. Drobey didn’t even talk to me. I passed by all of them…

February 1936 “She Talks to Angels”

This February is not a surprising month for this to happen but it brings with it a new crush, Maurice, the boy she went to the dance with. AND he is in her English class. There is a scandal with another girl in their class, one whom Babu refers to as the “class freak.” This…