Friday, January 24, 1964 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

January 24, 1964
Friday, bright, clear and sunny, 50's and windy, snow on mountains.  I washed and made some banana nut bread and cake in am.  Marilyn called Eilene Jones.  Had a letter from Ella Mae.  Wrote to Gerald, sent pictures.
Comment: Sure wish I had those pictures she sent me.."Photographs remind us of what we now think we once were". Great line, wish I'd written it....but I did use it: Bet you can't name the people in the pictures...all are from the yearbooks of Gilboa Central School...
Photographs remind us of what we now think we once were
As the days and weeks and months all speed by in a blur.

Gilboa Central yearbook pictures, 1956
“Central” means that we all came from way out in the sticks.

Duck and cover, polio, “The Diary of Anne Frank”
Hungarian rebellion suppressed by Russian tanks.

With Elvis on the radio, James Dean at the drive-in
Young People’s Meetings, roller skating, necking was a sin.

Then Camelot and brothers John and Bobby met their fate
Then “The Pill” and Vietnam, and then there’s Watergate.
We lived and loved and failed and won and somehow made it through
Now here’s some pictures black and white that look a lot like you.

All these lucky folks that lived through life’s strange mist and fog
And are on my distribution list:  my “looking backwards” blog.

And as the weeks and months and years all speed by in a blur
Photographs remind us of what we now think we once were...