January 8, 1963
Tues Cloudy no wind 39 all night about 33 all through the day. Clifton, Sue and I went to Cobleskill and Mother’s for dinner. Sue went to Dentist and had 6 yr molar out Clifton stopped at the Auction at Bartholomew's. Doug Van Aken here at night. Clifton came home from the sale with Earl.
Comment: Seems like a "January Thaw" is in effect. Doug Van Aken contracted polio in the fifties and it affected only the right side of his body. The opposite side did all the work and his arm was particularly muscular. He always walked with a limp but he was always irrepressibly good humored. He developed a business of finding, refurbishing and selling old US Army trailers and would scour the country to find them. This is a picture of him and his daughter on Hubbard Hill.
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