March 4, 1963
Mon mostly cloudy in the ’40s all day. The snow settled a lot. Clifton drew three logs up here and had spring put in the car at Raymond's in the afternoon. Maude called and brought my Stanley things. Mother called and said she was working.
Comment: Rather then cutting up the logs in the woods, we sometimes skidded them out and brought them to just outside the wood house to be cut up as needed or when the weather broke. The broken spring in Dad's car got fixed at Raymond Brown's, which was almost directly over the top of Hubbard Hill in Broom Center. When Mother or Grandma Bessie worked, she worked in a glove shop in Richmondville that was owned by Charlie Papa, a near and dear first cousin of Mary Ann. Charlie and Bea are now both deceased and we have very fond memories of them. The Papa glove shops did a lot of military glove contracts and he also hit the "toe sock" craze and had a major knitting operation for those. Both of Mary Ann's parent's worked in the Gloversville shops. Her dad George was a "cutter" and he developed massive shoulders and arms from stretching the skins to make sure they got as many gloves as possible out of the hide. Her mother Mary, was a "finisher" who hand sewed the very fine stitches around the seams of the fingers of the gloves.
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