Wednesday, 28 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 28 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Rainy and foggy.  I ironed.   Invited Earl and Lillian over for dinner.  Etheridge got a load of hay. Wrote to Marilyn.
Comment:  Bartering hay for log hauling...Earl and Lillian in the dining room of the Hubbard Hill House...

Tuesday, 27 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 27 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Rainy, foggy, Wayne was home, we all three went to Cobleskill and Mother's for dinner.
Comment:  Unemployment sign up.......Aunt Winnie on Student Council, 1936, Savella Beers was my 4th grade teacher and of course Mr. Peckham threw me out of school about five times or so.....fond memories....

Monday, 26 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 26 February 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Rainy, 34 to 39.  Clifton and I went to Windham in am, stopped at Betty's a minute, Tom is in Canada.  I washed in pm.  I had a letter from Marilyn.
Comment:  Wonder if Tom was skiing in Canada.....he was one of the good guys...here is his Obituary.....unfortunately, it does not convey his kindness and respect he showed to some of his less fortunate cousins....never knew he was born in Ohio, I did not know his sisters, I do remember his father. Tom died about six years younger than I am now which is certainly a cause for reflection....

Birth:	Mar. 16, 1928 Ohio, USA
Death:	Jul. 13, 2004
PRATTSVILLE, NY — Thomas O'Hara, 76, of Prattsville died on Tuesday, July 13, 2004, at A.O. Fox Memorial Hospital, Oneonta. Born on March 16, 1928, in Steubenville, Ohio, he was the son of the late Albert and Clara (Kipp) O'Hara. Mr. O'Hara married Betty Y. Hubbard, on June 6, 1948. Besides his wife, he is survived by his children, Michael O'Hara, Mary O'Hara, Ann O'Hara Gurecki, Erin O'Hara Meyer; eight grandchildren; one great-grandchild; a cousin, Olive Cronk Van Aken; and many nieces and nephews. Besides his parents, he was predeceased by two sisters, Mary Lou O'Hara Wade and Christine O'Hara Daly. He was the proprietor of O'Hara's Trading Post, a family owned business in operation for more than 50 years in Prattsville. Mr. O'Hara was a member of the Prattsville Fire Company, Virgil E. Deyo American Legion Post in Prattsville and the Scotch Valley Ski Patrol. Visitation will be held at the Decker Funeral Home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, July 15. A mass of the Resurrection will be held at noon on Friday, July 16, at St. Philip Neri Roman Catholic Church, Grand Gorge. Private cremation will follow at the Albany Rural Crematory in Menands. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in his memory may be made to the Prattsville Rescue Squad, American Heart Association, American Lung Association or the Virgil E. Deyo American Legion Post. Arrangements are with Decker Funeral Home 134 Main St., Windham.
Burial: Cremated, Location of ashes is unknown.

Sunday, 25 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 25 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Ten to 35 degrees, sunny beautiful day.  We went to church and Sunday School. LaVerne and Roberta were here for dinner and supper.  Girls went to BYF in afternoon.
Comment:  Family Sunday...two years later Cassius Clay would knock out Sonny Liston in on of the greatest boxing upsets in boxing history...and the meme "Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A Bee" was born....."On February 25, 1964, 22-year-old Cassius Clay shocks the odds-makers by dethroning world heavyweight boxing champ Sonny Liston in a seventh-round technical knockout. The dreaded Liston, who had twice demolished former champ Floyd Patterson in one round, was an 8-to-1 favorite. However, Clay predicted victory, boasting that he would "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" and knock out Liston in the eighth round. The fleet-footed and loquacious youngster needed less time to make good on his claim--Liston, complaining of an injured shoulder, failed to answer the seventh-round bell. A few moments later, a new heavyweight champion was proclaimed."  

Saturday, 24 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 24 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, snow all day, not too cold, 18-22.  Four to six inches of new snow.  Clifton made out state income tax.  I washed.
Comment:  Typical February day....Evelyn and Ina Belle, class of '34 in 1936 Alumni section Gilboa Reflector....Maid In Waiting:    a young woman of a queen's or princess's household appointed to attend her...Wonder where she was working....

Friday, 23 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 23 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, warm.  We all went to LaVerne's at night.  Mrs. Renz and children were there and Debbie.  LaVerne's birthday.  It started to snow about 10pm and snowed all night. David and Wayne went to Middleburgh at night and got plugs and points put in the Plymouth.  Gerald was home early.
Comment:  Happy Birthday Clifton LaVerne....

Tuesday, 22 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 22 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, warm 36 to 40 degrees.  Clifton and boys cut log in am and Ethridge, Clifton and David took them to Fleischmanns in pm.
Comment:   Ethridge Goodfellow was a neighbor farmer with who made his living farming and trucking.....

Wednesday, 21 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 21 February 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, light snow, 18.  I washed.  Clifton and I went to Dick Mattice's funeral at Middleburgh.  the girls stayed at Bitle's.  Clifton and boys cut logs in am.  Ethridge got a load of hay in pm.  The girls and I went to a prayer meeting at Keepers.
Comment:  Dad must be bartering with Ethridge Goodfellow, we give him hay, he hauls the logs for us......Dad had his own trucking business in the early thirties.  Ethyl Haskin's diary has many entries of  Leonard and Almon Haskins working for him.  The business came to a sad end when one of his drivers ditched a truck with a load of cement and was killed.  I recount this in "Me, LaVerne & Franklin Brown:  take a listen:  http://hubbardfamilymusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/me-laverne-franklin-brown-talking-blues.html

Tuesday, 20 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 20 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Snow flurries and windy, about 18.  John Glenn went into orbit three times around the earth.  We went to Cobleskill in pm.  Got Carol shoes and Susan sneakers.
Comment:  The orbits must have been a shock to Mom's belief system.  I distinctly remember arguing with her about us going to the moon and she absolutely believed it was not God's will that we do so....

Sunday, 18 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 18 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
We went to church and Sunday School.  Mr. Mayo here for dinner.  David and Wayne were with Bobby  Briggs.  Gerald went back in am.  Had play practice.  We went down to LaVerne's in pm. Dick and Joan Hitchcock and family were there.
Comment:  Aunt Winny as a Junior in high school....

Saturday, 17 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 17 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Snow flurries, 20's.  Clifton and boys cut a load of wood.  I washed again.  Broke tractor, David went to Middleburgh after the part.
Comment:  It's always something.....from the 1936 Gilboa HS yearbook....

Friday, 16 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 16 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloud, 20's, started to snow 230pm..light snow.  I washed and cleaned all through.

Clifton skidded out more logs, he went to Etheridge's to see about him hauling them but he wasn't home.  Earl and Lillian went to NYC for their first anniversary.  Clifton called conservation department.  We went to ball game at night.   David and Sarah went too. Gilboa lost to Middleburgh.
Comment:Not sure who Sarah is.

Thursday, 15 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 15 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Fair 20's.  Missionary Meeting and Madalyn's, only four of us there.  Clifton drew logs. We went to Gene's and LaVerne's at night, no one home.  Wrote to Marilyn.
Comment:  Gene's is Gene Hallock, Flora Del's father.......more from the 1936 GCH Reflector...Dad and Evelyn mentioned in the alumni section:  

Wednesday, 14 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 14 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Twenties, started to snow before daylight and snowed all day and night.  David and Clifton went to Albany, couldn't find the place, I ironed.
Comment:  Hmmm, wonder what they were looking for......1936 Reflector Alumni, Evelyn and Ina Belle, Class of '34

Tuesday, 13 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 13 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, 38 degrees.  We went to Schoharie and Cobleskill in pm.  We all went over to Earl's at night.
Comment:  The Tuesday trip to sign up for unemployment insurance.  From the 1936 GCCHS...the buses and bus drivers....Uncle Merle is fourth in line.....

Monday, 12 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 12 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, zero to thirty.  Sue home with a cold.  I washed.  Clifton skidded logs with the big tractor.  Had a sick headache all day.  Had letter from Marilyn.
Comment:  The big tractor was a tricycle Farmall H with 600 lbs of  calcium liquid in each rear tire for traction and and it really was quite a rig.  In fifth gear it went about 20 or so mph and very maneuverable.  I almost tipped it over trying to herd cows with it.  I put it up on one rear wheel and it seemed like forever before it righted itself...another lucky break.....

 

Sunday, 11 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 11 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Minus 20 to minus 15, sunny.  We went to church and Sunday School.  Picked up Kingsley's, their car wouldn't start.  LaVerne's and us went over to Mother''s in pm and stayed for dinner.
Comment:  Brutally cold, 1940 Gilboa Reflector, Merel Jr is in the last row far right....know any others??

Saturday, 10 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 10 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cold, about 3 inches of new snow, 20 below zero.  we went to Bruce's funeral, kids stayed here.  Sue took her music lesson.  Gerald went back at night to a party. LaVerne and Roberta were here for supper.  Broke axle on big tractor.
Comment:  Another kinda tough day on the hill.....

Friday, 9 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 9 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, 18 degrees.  I wrote to Doug, washed, Clifton went to Middleburgh after part for chain saw.  We went to ball game at night.  Gerald came home.  Snow in pm at night.
Comment:  Our equipment broke down a lot it seems and as kids and teenagers, the breakdown was a welcome break from the work and sometime involved a trip after parts to Middleburgh or Cobleskill or even Schenectady or Albany.  I remember vying for the chance to take a cool ride in the summer or a warm one

in the winter.  Ahhh, the small pleasures.....

Thursday, 8 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 8 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, 5 to 25 degrees.  Wayne was home with headache.  Clifton cut logs.  I went to Fultonham with Madalyn to accessory lessons.  Paul Ellis stopped in pm.  I worked on my dress.
Comment:  The lessons must have been about her sewing machine....Paul was our cousin, son of Clarence and Madalene Hubbard Ellis and at one time worked the Elmer Hubbard farm for awhile.  Dad was violating all sorts of safety philosophies by cutting logs alone in the woods.  There's a whole bunch of stuff that can happen cutting logs and most of it is bad.....of course, we never had any safety helmets or other gear...I still have some faint scars on my leg where I grazed myself with a chainsaw....lucky again....

Wednesday, 7 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 7 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Zero degrees.  Bruce Buel died this morning.  I ironed.  Clifton went to Windham.  The girls, Madalyn, I and four Buck children went to prayer meeting at Louvilla's.  Had a nice letter from Dougie.
Comment:  Bruce was the landlord of the first house my folks lived in, also was Gilboa post office.  Here it is in about 1936, Mom and Dad with Marilyn and LaVerne...

Tuesday, 6 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 6 February 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Five degrees, windy, partly cloudy, light snow flurries.  Carol still home.  We went to Mother's for dinner.  Clifton and boys went to LaVerne's at night for tools.
Comment:  Uh oh, something's broke......just read an article about how farmers are struggling with the newer farm equipment because they can no longer fix the equipment with baling twine and duct tape because of the sophisticated electronics it all has now...causing many problems, and there is a big market  for used equipment that is not so electronically based....here is a Facebook page on the subject:  

https://www.facebook.com/BalerTwinePage

Monday, 5 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 5 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Comment:  Carol apparently helps with the diary......

Sunday, 4 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 4 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Beautiful, sunny, warm, 35, no wind, no snow.  We went to church and Sunday School.  Rev & Mrs. Mayo & two children here for dinner.  Gerald went back 530pm.
Comment:  "Warm" at 35...hmmm...me back to Coby.....a rather horrible example of behavior by some of our southern namesakes.....a lynching...from The Gilboa Monitor about 1890 or so.....

Saturday, 3 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 3 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, 25, very light snow.  Clifton made out income taxes.  Sue took her music lesson.  David and Wayne went out at night, Gerald stayed home.
Comment:  Hmmm..amazing, I did not go out on a Saturday night, might have been broke but that usually didn't matter.....In yesterdays post, I mentioned the property of Jabez and Anna Maria Brandow Hubbard.  I've located a map of the property....see lower right of picture #12, J Hubbard.....this also show the old town of Gilboa before the dam....

Friday, 2 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 2 February, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Zero to 23, partly cloudy.  I washed.  Clifton went to Windham again.  We went to ballgame at school.  LaVerne and Roberta went with us.  Carol went home with Jill Hughes after school.  Bus had troubles, Gerald picked them up on Haskin Hill.
Comments:  Must be losing it, I have no memory of picking them up......Just found an a reference to Jabez Hubbard, my Great Great Grandfather in an issue of the Gilboa Monitor, January 8, 1880.  It's a little hard to read...it's a mortgage foreclosure in favor of Maria Hubbard who's property is next to that of Jabez Hubbard....now I wonder where that was.....btw, Maria Hubbard was Jabez's wife, her full maiden name was Ann Maria Brandow.....

Thursday, February 1, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, February 1, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries  
Partly cloudy 0 to 15°. David was home, he and Clifton went up to Windham. I cleaned living room and floors.
Comment:  David must be looking for a job, maybe Dad too...maybe the ski areas....ad from 1962:  Had my share of this from time to time....