https://www.loc.gov/item/98508422/ In October, 1938, Babu writes: Monday, October 3rd, 1938 It’s nice to ride to work in company in the morning. Three of the girls go to Bay Path and Jamie’s sister goes to civil service. This is National Letter Writing Week so I answered two letters. Mom is still taking Evelyn’s place at the…
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Sharing with Babu: That’s the kind of friends we were.
Sharing passages again with Babu seemed to be the cure to what ailed me, and her. We read some of August twice now and we haven’t yet got through. She reads on the computer with really big font and I sit with her and scroll through. Reading with her today was like being on the…
Excerpts, September 1938. The Let Down(s)
Have you ever got something started, or something got started with out your say so, and it’s still young and tender and you know that if you leave it, it stands the danger of withering before it really got started? I could be talking about my garden, about how hard it is to plant seeds…
Excerpts, September, 1938, Grafton Vermont
She has such a good time when she is in Vermont with Ernie. This summer, Babu visits at the end of August through the beginning of September for almost two weeks. She writes about her hesitation to leave and her relief to be home, but in the middle there certainly is a lot of fun. …
September, 1938
Well, September, 1938 is certainly full of excitement. It also has at least one let down. The month begins with her still in Vermont on vacation. She has “glorious days” riding horseback and tandem bicycles. (Why don’t we see more of tandem bicycles?) This is probably the only way she can ride a bike with…
The Moon: Excerpts, August, 1938
Monday, August 1st, 1938 Alice and Jimmy took us mushroom picking up by Ashley Pond where we kids go to watch the moon over the mountain. We got bit up and scratched up and I got a handful of berries and a couple of mushroom and a spray of flowers. Wrote a letter to Benny…
August Excerpts and Vintage Pictures
Sunday, August 14th, 1938 Got up at five and am not going to bed until 12. We three couples went to Misquamicut. Stayed all day, ate, swam, took pictures, got burned. We sang most of the way up and back. On the way home we stopped by the way to eat the rest of our…
Excerpts, July, 1938 Modern Conveniences, or Lack Thereof
Monday, July 11th, 1938 It was hard coming back to work today. Last night sleeping on the porch was difficult. The full moon shown in my face, my sunburn bothered me a little, and mosquitoes annoyed me. It was very hot today although it rained twice. I think the rain spoiled opening night at our…
Excerpts from June, 1938
Thank you for voting yesterday on your favorite vintage photo. If you haven’t already – I’d really like some more votes. 🙂 Click on yesterday’s post and vote in the comments. Share if you would like to. I’d appreciate that. I am going to give it until the end of the day tomorrow and then…
Vote on Your Favorite Vintage Photo
I have been posting these amazing photos from my grandmother’s collection. I have been transcribing and writing about her diary for over a year but I only found the photos to go with all of those diary passages a couple of weeks ago. I am obsessed! This will be more fun the more people I…
Vi at the Office
I’m not going to lie, some of the end of the alphabet gets hard. I chose to write about Vi, a girl who works with Babu at the office, because, well, it fits, and because I am always drawn to the background characters. Sometimes they become more important and maybe Vi will. Babu writes: Monday,…
Toto’s Zeppelin and Typewriters
Twice in June of 1938 Babu talks about going to Toto’s Zeppelin. Not surprisingly, I was a little confused. Friday, June 17th, 1938 Everything went beautifully tonight when I dressed. Johnny sent beautiful flowers both for my hair and dress. Gabbie invited us to her home for a cocktail party but we all were rather…
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