February 16, 1963
Sat -10 to 5 above. Bright sunny day Cold and Windy. Girls cleaned up the house I had headache. The girls went to the (basketball) game at night with David and came home on the bus. Had a letter from Doug.
Comment: Again a cold day. Mom had a lot of headaches, probably migraine, that people on the hill called "poor spells". "Poor spell" could apply to most any sickness that was obviously not a cold or the flu and/or did not have a fever. I think several of the Hubbard men, my father and grandfather included, suffered from mild and sometimes acute depression that left them in a funk for days and family said they were having a "poor spell". Mom would sometimes stay in bed all day when the episodes hit.
Again, a big social event of the week during the winters, were the basketball games held at the Gilboa Central School. The buses would run to pick up kids who wanted to go, probably because if they didn't, most kids would not go. I know I would have never played any of the sports unless the school provided transportation. Families were either working, broke, or running a dairy farm, any of which did not allow for a lot of running kids around to events. Below is a picture of Carol and Susan on Susan's first day of school. They are waiting for the bus.
In the back ground are the legs of a cow walking up the road...we might have been bringing the cows in to change pasture, milk or maybe the cow was just "out".
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