There is some dream, some dream about…my garden. I keep walking, taking turns peering around corners, snooze and there’s more. More yard, more rose bushes. It’s both a marvelous snooze dream, like The Secret Garden! and an anxiety dream. There’s more. More work to do. I could have put the snooze cucumber plants here and…
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A Hello and a Little Update
Hey everyone. I feel that right away I need to tell you Babu is doing well! 🙂 Yes, I have been away from the blog for a while. Whenever this happens, which some of you long time followers know happens a lot, I feel its tug. When I’m not working on the blog or transcribing…
April A-Z: January
Usually, when I “end one year” and “begin another” inside this project I celebrate almost as much as I do the actually changing of years. Ok, that’s an exaggeration, but possibly this January, the January of 1940, deserves to start without a lot of fan fair. Here is a shock: Oh my. This hasn’t happened…
April A-Z: Insufficient sleep
You really cannot say that Babu had a wild life. She did everything a good woman of the time was supposed to do: waited until marriage, did well in her college studies, got work and was, for the most part, a very dependable employee. Even still, here is one passage I will never forget: Rumble…
April A-Z Four Hundred!!
Yes, my April A-Z is completely out of order. I’m out of order! I had to jump to “F” today because…drum roll please…this is my four hundredth post. I find that amazing. I think of the work I still have to do I think that this four hundred is a drop in the bucket and…
April A-Z: December, 1939: Everyone Stopped by!
Wednesday, December 6th, 1939 Tonight at 6:15 Jakey rang the doorbell. He leaned against some paint and I had to clean his pants. Then Edmund came, asking if Jakey lived here. Next came Filo. Billy turned up last of all. We discussed things and when Dad came home from work, they left to bowl. I…
November, 1939: Consolation and Choir
It’s just things like this that show, as much as Babu has changed since 1934, she’s still the same witty girl. Eddie Zimba, Emily Pesternak, Jakey and I tried to find an open bowling alley but all evening was spent in naught cause they were all full. We consoled ourselves with ice cream. I wonder,…
Reflection
I’m thinking I may not even post this. I only need to write it. I just need some time to reflect. I have a confession to make. I took yesterday off from school just to get caught up on the blog. Not just posts, or replying to messages, or checking in on the blogs I…
Szot Park Fountain
Szot Park is something I’ve always taken for granted. It’s been here since I moved to Chicopee. I can see it from my back porch. But it wasn’t always there. In a Masslive.com article this information is shared: Szot Park opened with dedication ceremonies on Oct. 14, 1939. The dedication included the unveiling of a…
I’ve Been Holding Out on You. (The World’s Fair, 1939)
Yes, October, 1939. I have been holding out on you. Kinda, but not really. Yea, not really. I began as super excited. I had seen, not really peeked, a picture here, a word there… Babu went to the World’s Fair! So exciting. I wanted to read all about it. What did she think of the…
October, 1939
Sunday, October 1st, 1939 Johnny Krol came home with me after church. Jake and Edmund told me to dress in a hurry so we could start for Amsterdam, New York. He (Ed) borrowed a convertible coupe Oldsmobile and we started off in style. Got there at 3:30. Had a good time at Paul and Ann…
New Year’s Eve Vintage Photos: 19…?
It was very rare for Babu to not have marked this pack of her pictures with detailed and precise information. Maybe these were Jake’s pictures and not hers? Whatever the case, I don’t need to be told what day this is as this is clearly a New Year’s celebration. But what year?? I’m thinking that…
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