Saturday, 31 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 31 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy.  Clifton and I went to Oneonta in am.  Laura and Michelle went too. LaVerne's came for the girls to babysit at night.  My head miserable all day.
Comment:  Tough way to end the year for Mom.  This is the last entry in the blog that has been provided by  Michael Hubbard.  He has been emailing me the entries for the past 4 years without fail.  Thanks Michael.  Tomorrow will start the year 1962 from Mom's diary provided to me by Sister Marilyn.

Friday, 30 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 30 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, very windy and snow flurries from the west, about 20 degrees.
Gerald and Mary Ann came to Gloversville but didn't come here because Sue had measles and mumps.
Comment:  Probably a good move on our part, mumps in an adult male can cause sterility...hmmmm no kids....that would have certainly made a different life for us....David, Craig Mary Ann, 1971 or so....

Thursday, 29 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 29 December 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Snow starting at night about 3 or 4 inches,  becoming partly cloudy in am and windy.  I didn't feel good all day and didn't do much, stomach and head.  Roberta took Carol to Doctor's in pm about her knee.  Sue sick with mumps.  Clifton didn't work, home 930 pm.  Had letter from Marilyn and pictures and sample of her new coat.
Comment:  Whole family ailing, probably Dad with a hangover if he did not work and did not get home till 930pm........life sometimes, ain't easy....

Wednesday, 28 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 28 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny in am and one inch of light snow, teens and twenties.  I did some ironing.  Sue had mumps and three-day measles.  Carol went skiing with Debbie and hurt her knee. Came home 330 pm.  We had Kern papers from Marilyn and a towel calendar.
Comment:  Both girls down...the Kern papers are about the Kern Flood where in Jim Harris became a hero......here he is in a workshop....always cool....

Tuesday, 27 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 27 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Mostly sunny in the teens.  Light snow at night, one inch.  I washed, etc.  Sue had three-day measles.  Wayne's came for supper, had to have new starter put on his car. Carol went to Debbie's at night.
Comment:  Three day measles is also called German measles and Rubella, often mild....It's always something with their cars......"washed, etc", wonder what the etc means.....building the garage, early fifties.....from left, Wayne, Doug, Gerald, LaVerne, forefront, a 1951 Ford....I still remember that day as being quite cold......

Monday, 26 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 26 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy and light snow all day, in the 20's.  Clifton, girls and I went with LaVerne's to Mother and Norm's for Christmas, home 4 pm.  Doug had our car and David and Mary went skiing.  They took Doug to Albany to meet bus at night.
Comment:  I think this is the only picture I have that includes Norm in it.  Summer of 1960 on the Hill...back row:  Clarence Barber, "Mother", Bessie & Norm, Billy, Flora Tenblad.  Front Row:  Frances, Emma Tenblad, Carol, Nancy Smith, Me, Dad....

Sunday, 25 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 25 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, cold, windy, 18 to 25. Gerald and Mary Ann left for Gloversville after plows came through about 11 am.  We were home all day because of storm.
Comment:  Merry Christmas.....hmm, no church or Sunday School or church at night and it's Christmas, kinda ironic......probably how it looked....

Saturday, 24 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 24 December 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, cold, 10-15 degrees.  Heavy snow starting about 2 pm.  Laverne's and Wayne's came for Christmas dinner at 7pm and had gifts after.  They left at 10pm as the snowplow came or they would never have gotten home.
Comment:  And the Christmas blizzard strikes....Garrison Keillor even wrote a book about one.....http://www.garrisonkeillor.com/a-christmas-blizzard/
“A Christmas Blizzard is the story of James Sparrow who dreads the holiday and the poignant memories it dredges up and who longs to spend December in Hawaii. But his wife adores Christmas and cannot bear to miss it. A phone call from cousin Liz in James’s hometown of Looseleaf, N.D. — his uncle Earl is dying — brings James out of the doldrums and he flies to Looseleaf just in time to be snowed in by a major blizzard. There is a ghost, a wise man of San Francisco, a genial uncle, an undercover FBI agent, a steamy sauna scene, and the singing of Christmas carols. And several feet of snow.”
— Garrison Keillor

Friday, 23 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 23 December 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Mostly cloudy and cold, 10.  I was sick all day, stomach and head cold.  Sue and Mary Ann did the work.  Gerald, Mary Ann, Doug, and Sue went to Mother's in pm.  Sue went caroling with Young People at night and stayed at LaVerne's all night.  Gerald's went to LaVerne's and Wayne's at night.  Doug and Helene were at Wayne's too. Marilyn called at night.
Comment:  A busy Christmas Eve Eve....From Google Search:  Urban Dictionary
 Christmas Eve Eve 
The day before Christmas Eve. All "Eve" holidays are better than the actual holiday because the day does not have to live up to the expectation of the real holiday. People are also usually off work on "eve's" so it is like everyone's Friday night!!!  Happy Christmas Eve Eve!! Let's get Hammered!!!   ....and we probably did.....

Thursday, 22 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 22 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cold and mostly cloudy, girls home from school at noon.  Sue and I went to Middleburgh and Cobleskill shopping in the afternoon.  I went to prayer meeting to Evelyn Bailey's at night with Lyle and Madelyn.  Had letter from Marilyn.
Comment:  Last minute shopping....

Wednesday, 21 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 21 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Still cloudy, 20's.  I wrapped gifts all am.  Did some ironing, cleaned upstairs.
Comment:  Shortest day, shortest diary entry...hmmm..Winter Solstice Morning In The Catskill:  Thanks Vision Of Schoharie County...

Tuesday, 20 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 20 December 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, about 20, snow in pm, light.  I wrote to Marilyn, baked two batches of cookies and went to Oneonta with Roberta in PM.  Laura and Michelle went too, home 830pm.
Comment:  A full day....another Doug in California:  Doug, Dean, Marna, Patty....

Monday, 19 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 19 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Clear, sunny and cold, 5 above early.  I washed and wrote more cards, did ironing.  Doug called 8pm and girls and I met him in Kingston 1115 pm.
Comment:  Doug must have the week off....Doug in California....holding Dean, Patty, Jim, Marna, at the Grand Canyon...must have been early sixties....

Sunday, 18 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 18 December 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Mostly cloudy, 20's.  Girls and I went to church and Sunday School, all home in pm. Carol went to Prattsville with Mary Ann.  Didn't go to Chapel at night.
Comment:  Don't think it "our" Mary Ann, not sure who....we used to go to the Christmas festivities at the Chapel Church on Mace Road in Broome Center:  Here is how it looks now.....

Saturday, 17 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 17 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, 40's.  I finished Sue's dress, made candy for program at church.  Girls and I went to Grand Gorge after feed in pm and church to program at night.
Comment:  Another busy day and evening...bet the candy was fudge of some sort....

Friday, 16 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 16 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, 30's.  I sent Ella Mae's package and some more cards.  Went to Oneonta with Roberta in afternoon, home 745 pm.  Girls went to game.  Had letter from Marilyn, Howard West died.
Comment:  I do not know who Howard West is.......Marilyn with her mother.....

Thursday, 15 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 15 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, about 30.  Carol, Mary, Ella and I went to Albany shopping, home about 8pm. I went to church at night for practice and decorating the tree.
Comment:  Christmas is coming.  Grandpa Elmer and Louis Ferris's wedding party.  Roger Vaughn, Uncle Merel, Elmer, Louise, Aunt Ella, Rudy Earl...only Rudy still around.  The date was January 1, 1961, when Elmer was 79.  He lived until September 21, 1964, when he died at 82.  I am now living in my 82nd year.

Wednesday, 14 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 14 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, snow, 20's, about 5 to 6 inches of snow.  My head felt miserable.  I fixed 8 of soap.  Wrote more Christmas cards, Called Mother.
Comment:  Sounds like a tough day...more on hero Jim Harris....from Marna:  "Here is a picture of  my dad's silver and cedar "Hero Box" that he received after helping to rescue the Wally York family. They had a set of twins that were my age. He carried one of them out on his shoulders.The inside inscription of the box reads "Presented to Jim Harris December 5, 1966 In recognition of your heroism in coming to the aid of a fellow employee CALIFORNIA LIQUID GAS CORPORATION"

I was always so proud of him for this act! Now I realize it was very risky and probably foolish of them to do it! I am the kid that got to keep the box after my Dad died"

Tuesday, 12 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 12 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, cold, I washed in am, hemmed Linda K's dress and cut out and started Sue's aqua dress.  Wrote to Marily and sent some Christmas cards.  Started to snow about 8 pm.
Comment:  Talked to Marilyn about Kern flood in the 11 December post.  They lived in the Lake Isabella area at that time.  The Kern River drains into that lake.  They were stranded about 4 days during that time with three kids, Marna, Patty and Dean.  Jim and a co-worker became local heroes when they rescued a family from the flood, wading through waist deep water to get to them and get them out.  Jim received some kind of award for heroism....Marilyn said was a rather close call.....Knowing Jim, you would not be surprised if he did something like that...Jim Harris as a Marine.....

Monday, 12 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 12 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, cold, 20's.  I wrote some Christmas cards, finished Carol's dress.  Carol and I took Doug to Kingston at 530 am.  Linda K brought over a dress to have hemmed in the evening.  Had letter from Marilyn telling about the bad flood in the Kern River Valley on December 5th.  So thankful Jim was safe.  Papa and Billy here in afternoon.
Comment:  The Kern River flood must have been a doozy.....and here's Merle Haggard singing about the river:  

Kern River Valley Flood 1966

Sunday, 11 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 11 December 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, colder, high 30's.  Girls and I went to church and Sunday School.  LaVerne's came in afternoon and Helene was here for supper.  Gerald and Mary Ann at Gloversville and called on Saturday.  Madelyn went to church with me at night.
Comment:  Pleasant Sunday coming down....us in Gloversville 6 years later.....Margie, Kristen, Mary Ann, Mary Ann's cousin, Rose Verde, me.....

Saturday, 10 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 10 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Beautiful, sunny, warm 60's.  Carol and I cleaned all through in am.  Clifton and Doug cleaned the woodhouse.  Girls and I went shopping at Cobleskill in pm.  Wayne's came in evening.
Comment:  Sounds like a nice day.....who's this?  Front steps of the Elmer Hubbard House....

Friday, 9 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 9 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Beautiful Day, cloudy, warm, 64 degrees, light showers, no winds.  I washed in am.  Doug called 1115 am and I went to Kingston after him, stopped in Cairo.  Girls went to South Kortright to game. I went to LaVerne's at night, Laura and Michelle were there.  She had been shopping with Roberta. Louise had her wallet stolen with $15 in it.
Comment:  $15 was worth about $110 in 1966....Wayne and family about 10 years later.....

Thursday, 8 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 8 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, 50's.  I sent Marilyn's package and wrote to her.  Went to Evelyn Bailey's to Missionary Meeting, nice time.  David was home in evening a few minutes, got some of his clothes.
Comment:  David must me staying somewhere close to his new job at Albany Felt...here is  probably more than you want to know about the company but still some interesting history of the area.....

The banks of the Hudson River north and south of Albany, as well as the Mohawk and other nearby rivers, were dotted with paper mills in the 1890s. Practically all of the paper manufactured in the U.S. was made within a few hundred miles of Albany, and the forests of the Adirondacks resounded with the echoes of the woodsman's axe and falling timber. It is no wonder that there grew up in the Albany area an industry to supply the burgeoning paper industry. ​In 1895, three Albany businessmen with capital of $40,000 formed the Albany Felt Company to manufacture papermaker's felts. In 1902, the Company moved to the site that would be its principal home until 2011 - the plant on Broadway which is on the boundary line between the City of Albany and the Village of Menands.

Wednesday 7 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday 7 December 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, warmer and rain, 30's and 40's, rained at night.  John didn't come up. Roberta not feeling good.  I wrapped gifts for California.  Called Wayne's afternoon, there were going to take Michelle to Doctor's, she had a bad cold.  Had letter from Marilyn.  Went to PTA, Mrs. Tollisch went with me.
Comment:  No mention of Pearl Harbor Day, never heard of Mrs. Tollisch.....Here is what happened:  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/12/06/pearl-harbor-what-happened-during-december-7-1941-attack-hawaii/4351786002/

Tuesday, 6 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 6 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, icy in early am.  I washed, had quite a bad cold in my head.  Baked cookies in pm for PTA Wednesday night.
Comment:  She keeps on moving....Spring hay ride.....can you name the riders??

Monday, 5 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 5 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy and cold, 20's, freezing rain all night.  The Girls and I took Doug to Kingston 530 am.  Came home and went to Oneonta Christmas shopping.  Roberta went too. Got Marilyn things.  We fixed more soap at night.  Birdsley Moore's barn and wagon house burned.
Comment:  An early start to the week....They must be doing something with soap for Christmas, I guess...another picture from Dennis Ford....see more at http://dennisrford.com/    The barn of my grandfather's on my mother's side, Clarence Barber.....never really played around it very much as a kid, don't know why.  I remember that it seemed very large inside the dairy cow portion......

Sunday, 4 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 4 December 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, cold, minus 12 to 20.  Girls and I went to church and Sunday School.  We went to Laverne's and Wayne's in the afternoon and ate supper at LaVerne's.  Helene came back home with Doug and Sue and I picked up Patty and went to church at night.  A missionary from Alaska, Paul Weemax.  Very good and beautiful slides.  David started work at Albany felt Company.
Comment:  Busy Sunday as usual....not sure who Helene or Patty are....no previous references in the Diaries.....The Flat Creek Baptist Church from the 2015 Calendar by Dennis Ford, Sister Marilyn's son-in-law married to Marna, her oldest daughter.  See more at www.DENNISRFORD.COM....wonderful photographer.....go to his PDF files and take a look at his Salton Sea Stories Portfolio...stark and startling beauty......

Saturday, 3 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 3 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, cold zero degrees early.  Clifton, girls and I went to Sears in Albany, took material back left over from the heater, got $13.00.
Comment:  Refund is worth about $95 in today's dollars...not bad, certainly worth the trip......cold day....

Friday, 2 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 2 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Snowed nearly all night, 3 to 4 inches, 6 degrees in early am becoming bright and sunny.  My head bad again.  I washed in am, did a little cleaning.  Went after Doug at 330 pm.  Clifton met me in Cairo and went along.  Girls went to game.  Mary Ann and Gerald called at night.
Comment:  Sure did a lot with a bad headache......cooold......from Visions Of Schoharie County....looking up out of the valley, to the left runs the Bush Road....

Thursday, 1 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 1 December, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Snow flurries nearly all day, 25.  I finished banking house in am, finished ironing and some sewing, shortened Carol's coat etc.  We went to LaVerne's at night for John's second birthday.
Comment:  "Banking" the house meant that she probably put hay bales along the foundation to keep the cold air from going underneath the house.  Hay bales were normally used but I remember Wild Bill Schermerhorn once piled cow manure and barn bedding about three feet deep all around his house on Bull Hill...I remember Dad commenting on it...he thought it was nuts because of the smell...Happy Birthday John LaVerne Hubbard....."he's much younger than that now".........

Wednesday, 30 November, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 30 November, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy and foggy.  I didn't do anything had sick headache all day.  David went to Albany for physical and got job at Albany Felt.

Comment:  Probably pretty hard to understand how bad her headaches were....

Tuesday, 29 November, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 29 November 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, 28.  I wrote to Marilyn and Gerald and Mary Ann, did some ironing, made three aprons.  David went job hunting.
Comment:  Wonder how she would have taken to email and Facebook??
From Sister Sue: Probably okay. She could type, you know. J Susan

Monday, 28 November, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 28 November, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Heavy rain and wind at night.  Cloudy and foggy, 39's.  I washed and hung clothes up stairs. Solicited for retarded children in am.  Doug and David went to Grand Gorge after feed.  David took Doug back at night.
Comment:  Hmmm, wonder where she went, had to be driving......bet

 
she did not run into any of these.....

Sunday, 27 November, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 27 November, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Thirties and forties.  Carol and I went to church.  Rudy's, Earl, Wayne and LaVerne here for dinner and supper.  Earl Christiana, Kitty, Herbie and her brother's friend and Helena Weedman here inf afternoon.
Comment:  Thanksgiving season and deer season in full swing.  Rudy, Earl and the Christiana's always stopped in during the deer season....

Saturday, 26 November, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 26 November, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy and cooler 40.  We worked at heater again.  Put two hot air ducts in front room and in our room.
Comment:   A never ending project.....

Friday, 25 November, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 25 November, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy but warm, 50's.  Girls and I went to Mother's for lunch and shopped after boys got back with car, had Rhunbeirs wrecker get it out.
Comment:  Getting back to normal, I guess.....Living room scene...who's the baby....

Thursday, 24 November, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 24 November, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Thanksgiving Day.  Cloudy but warm, 52.  Just David, Doug, girls, Clifton and I here. Wayne's here in evening.  Doug ran off the road near LaVerne's and LaVerne brought him home.  Jammed car roof. Doug and David went on Hall's Mountain toward night hunting.  Doug was nearly shot.  We called Marilyn in pm.
Comment:  A dangerous day for Doug....one of many on the Hill as the guns, farm animals and farm equipment occasioned many close calls.  I almost shot Doug with a 12 gauge.  We used to cut the slug out of a  shotgun shell and shoot just the wadding, kinda like a big blank shot.  So I had the idea that if  I just rolled the slug back down the barrel and then fired it, the slug would just roll out the end of the barrel.  I almost had Doug stand in front of it to test it when I changed my mind and aimed the gun at a round cast iron support post in the barn and pulled the trigger.  Of course, the slug came out full velocity and made a large and permanent dent in the pole, much to my horror at the time.....I was about twelve and Doug about eight years old......that post became a marveling focal point for me whenever I worked in or visited the barn in later years...here is what Doug said about the incidents through Michael: "I asked about the car and he said it just slid off the road, down the bank, onto some trees which damaged the roof.  He went to LaV’s, called home and Wyckoff’s got it out.  As for almost being shot, he and Uncle David were walking along and heard a gun shot and a slug bullet went between them.  He said he could actually see the bullet and it sounded like a bee….bzzzz".  27821

Wednesday, 23 November, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 23 November, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries 27820
Little cloudiness, 60, no wind.  I kept John until 230 pm.  Doug got home at 1230 pm and the girls from school same.  Letters from Mary Ann and Marilyn.  Doug took David's car to Brigg's.
Comment:  All getting ready for Thanksgiving day weekend.  School and Navy out early.....this old cupboard sat in the Hubbard House cellarway for many years...I still don't remember what was inside it...From Sister Sue: "That was Grandma Anna Christianna’s Jelly Cupboard – which John Hubbard has now. Mom kept canned pickles, and jelly and jams in it, and other canned things."Susan

Tuesday, 22 November, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 22 November, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Another beautiful, clear, sunny day, 54 high, no wind.  I baked in am.  Clifton came home 1030 am, he was about sick with flu or a cold.   David left 1030 am for Syracuse. I did some sewing and ironing.  Girls had a game at night here.  Mother called in am.
Comment:  Dad must have been really sick, took a lot to put him down..Dad in his prime about 28 years old, and Mom about 23 in 1936 or so with Marilyn and LaVerne in the house they rented from Bruce Buel which later became the Gilboa Post Office.....

Monday, 21 November, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 21 November, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Beautiful day, no wind, 50.  First day of deer hunting.  Doug left 430 pm for New Jersey, he took David's car.  I washed in am, made an apron.  LaVerne's came about 4 pm and here for supper.  Roberta took me to to Grand Gorge with their truck for feed. They had just got back from New York City, went on Sunday after parts for plant.
Comment:  Busy day....Us boys always stayed home to hunt on the first day.  I got my first deer at 14 driving the woods below the road on the first day with my Dad.  Shot it with Mossberg 16 gauge bolt action C-lect Choke.  Here is how the hunting season works.....

Sunday, 20 November, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 20 November, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, clear, beautiful day, 12-40 degrees.  Girls and I went to church and Sunday School.  Wayne's here for dinner.  We made candles and started pillows in pm.  Sue went to church with me at night.
Comment:  Getting ready for the holiday season.....

Saturday, 19 November, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 19 November, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day.  Clifton and I worked on heater nearly all day, put in two cold air ducts.  Doug and girls went to Middleburgh after clothes at cleaners and Carol went to Mary O'hara's jewelry party at night.
Comment:  That damned heater......

Friday, 18 November, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 18 November 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
27815  Cold, mostly cloudy.  I washed and hung clothes in the attic.  David home about 1 pm.  I started after Doug 4:15 pm, met Clifton in Durham and he went with me. Girls had game in Jefferson.
Comment:  The weekend begins....."dinner", (mid-day) on the hill...wonder if it was deer hunting season, probably.....you name them....

Thursday, 17 November, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 17 November, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries  27814
Cloudy, 50's.  I ironed and did some cleaning.  Sue and I went to Katie's for hair spray.  I went to prayer meeting with Madelyn and Lyle at Kingsley's.
Comment:  The Christian life predominates.....from left:  Great Aunt Flora Tenblad Laraway, Judith Barber Newcomb, Mom's half-sister, "Billie", Mom's Aunt and Step Mother, Mom...