Wednesday, May 12, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

May 12, 1965

Wednesday, cooler mostly sunny, 64 high.  I worked on cupboards in kitchen and ironed and cleaned.  Wayne stayed out of school and worked for Earl all day.  Carol went home with Mary Jane Carman from school.  Clifton home late.

Comment: Mary Jane was part of the Carmen Trucking family in Prattsville. As ten- year olds, my friends, Donny Cornell and Edwin Brainard were fascinated by the big rigs and pretended a lot that they were trucks or truck drivers in our play. I think the big trucks took the place of the railroad trains in the romanticized visions of  our youth since trucks were more prevalent in that area of the Catskills....I think Carman's was pretty much wiped out during Irene....this is

a picture from Betty O'Hara's front yard looking toward the creek where their gas station had stood for about a hundred years.....I don't think Carman's fared any better.....