Were cars in 1940 harder to drive or is Babu just really bad? Sunday, April 7th, 1940 Maybe I spent all of a half hour at home today. After church Jakey took me riding and gave me my first driving lesson. He got provoked a few times but on the whole we did well. Admittedly,…
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July, 1940
I love when I get to write about the month I am currently in. When I read something like: Cookie and I lolled around with cooling drinks on our front porch in the bright moonlight. I can say to myself, wow, that sounds nice. What’s even crazier, is that I can go out on the…
Throw Back Thursday
Since I am so obsessed these days with airplanes and flight, I thought I’d go back to a post that explains the image I used in yesterday’s post: Blessed Life! This is a post about passages from 1937. I thought the picture from way back then would be a great one to put in my…
Retro Wednesday: The Great New England Airshow
A rumble, kind of a cracking rumble. A kind of cracking, tearing, rumble. And then it is out from behind the clouds, overhead, and then gone. Fighter planes and stunt men, and much, much more, put on quite a quite a show at Westover Airforce Base this weekend. What could be better than standing on…
June, 1940: Taunton
I’m not sure if I shared with you that the choir Babu is a part of had a trip planned around a concert in Taunton, MA. It looked as if Babu would not be able to attend due to her attendance at rehearsals: Monday, June 24th, 1940 I don’t think I can go to Taunton…
June, 1940
I’ve written a lot recently about a heartbreaking, but temporary, rift between Babu and Jake in the middle of 1940 but the crux of it was really surrounding the Nee-Wah trip to Brookside Campground in Chester, MA. These girls always get into trouble on this trip. Check out this passage if you don’t remember 😉…
Retro Wednesday: The Springfield Airport
Leave our home and head to the top of Bonneville. Take a left and go down Fairview which shifts onto Abbey Memorial. Pass the cemetery and Szot Park and come to the lights. Take a right then a quick left, unless you want some Papa John’s. You are in what my husband and I and…
Poor Poland
As I read her 1940 and even, of course, her 1939 passages I look for signs of war because I want her version of this story I already know. Her opinions, emotions, when, how, and how often the topic arrises in her pages tells me of The American Experience at this time. What is more…
The Beginning of 1940
February, March and April, these are the days. Love isn’t really heating up or cooling off, it’s nice and steady. Wonderful! The roller coster of love has turned to the lazy river for a moment. And it’s so romantic. So, maybe more like one of those Ventian boats a guy in a striped shirt pushes…
Retro Wednesday: Trolleys Part Two
Read part one here: Retro Wednesday: Trolleys Part One There were the times she had to wait for the trolley (and faced repercussions,) Friday, January 22nd, 1937 We lost our game with the Juniors 30 to 28 but it was a pretty good game. After school we had a practice then I bought a tan sport…
Back to June, 1939
Guess what?!?! I also missed a bunch of images that go along with June, 1939 so I cannot help but to splatter those up here as well in tandem with their text. (Man I love when the diary entry and the images collide!) Sunday, June 4th, 1939 It broke today raining and we almost didn’t…
Back to July, 1939: Vintage Images
As it is probably clear to see, I have been spending a lot more time on this project and maybe what is not as clear as the posts is all the work I have been putting into the organization of the archive. Today was especially rough. My eyes actually hurt from looking at alllll the…
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