Wednesday June 19th, 1935 The first thing I did today was to break my glasses. I put them in my purse and while trying to shut it they cracked. The right one did. Mother says I won’t get a bathing suit. She’s mad at me cause she says I spend too much money. I better…
Category: Excerpts
First Week of June, 1935 Excerpt
Wednesday June 5th, 1935 I’m so disappointed. My pictures are just one big mess. The serious one is fair but I only have 11 of that. The other one is so terrible I hate to give it to anyone. The smile is one sided, my eyes crinkled up, and I don’t look a bit like…
The end of May, 1935 Excerpts
Wednesday May 29th, 1935 My graduation pictures will be ready Friday. Tonight I signed up for Bay Path. The secretarial course for two years. Our cousins from Holyoke came for the evening. I want to go to prom. This passage has all short concise sentences. I think it shows a lot of anxiety and other…
Fourth Week of April, 1935 Excerpt
Tuesday, April 30, 1935 Had a very good lesson today. Joe Grdymir came from Worcester. He kept us drilling from 8 to 11. Now, Diary I’m seldom happy. I have an indescribable lump in my chest because I can’t be popular. You’ve heard this over and over again. Why can’t I be? Never mind. I…
Excerpts from March
In my last post I didn’t share all the adorable Babu quotes for March because there were some entire passages that I wanted to share. Saturday, March 16, 1935 I loved today. I was mostly sun shining and oh so warm. All the kids were out playing. Sophie was in bed because she got an…
Excerpt #6
Jenete has 2 sets of initials in her book. Her’s and Robert Sullivan’s and mine and Judson Ferguson’s. I think he’s so magnetic. He’s got a forehead like Franchot Tone. I was ironing some cuffs and collars and I haven’t done my brief on Burke. Poor me. :)!!!
Excerpt #5
Jenete’s going to the prom. Bobby Sullivan asked her. She got a gown from Peggy Zimba just like mine. Her aunt Jenny is letting her wear her coat and her aunt Lucy gave her a pair of shoes. She is certainly one lucky girl. I wish I could go.
Excerpt #4
Wednesday, January 30, 1935 I thought this would turn into another wallflower dance. It was almost. I had two numbers with Pansy and me – – – with some unknown boy. Oh but I liked to dance with him. I hope from now on someone will ask us to dance. We had lovely corsages. A…
New Years Over the Years
For the first time in this process I got my mind really blown, nostalgically. These “holiday specials” I thought up at random really have a surprising effect. I have read and transcribed three years of New Year’s Eves and Days. I don’t know why this didn’t happen over the Christmas and Wigilia entries, but I…
Everyone Loves a Christmas Special 1935, 36, 37
Wednesday, December 25, 1935 A happy Christmas day. Only Jaime disappointed me. He sent me a sweetheart card (I hate that) and a 5lb box of candy. Zosh and I saw “The Crusades.” She had supper up the house. Our story teller “Mike” was there, too. Then I played and we sang Christmas carols. (Oh…
All I want for Wigilia…
…is to find Babu’s 1934 diary – and any others! Call me greedy. I want to never run out of this work. Aaaannnddd who doesn’t love a holiday special? Here are three years of Wigilia entries: Tuesday December 24, 1935 Had X-mas supper with the Olbrychs at our house. Got no presents but don’t mind…
Excerpt #3
Tuesday, January 15, 1935 I found out today that Adele Janik is wearing WBZ’s class pin and Jenete told me he pushed all the boys away that he was talking to and walked Janet Overbaugh. Can’t he choose between the two. Father B said “Hello Emily” to me at Falcons today. He likes Jenete.
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