Saturday, 31 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 31 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Lovely day in Oakland, NJ but rained all day here.  I helped Ella Mae wash and clean all through and started for home about 230 pm.  Forgot our suitcase and had to go to Harriman before we could turn around.  Earl and Bob were hear for supper.  Marilyn took Sue to Dr. Lyons in am, she had bronchitis and fever of 103.4.  Ethridge got a load of hay.
Comment:  Shit happens.....

Friday, 30 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 30 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Lovely day, in 70's.  Helped Ella Mae, Clifton raked lawn.  Pressed curtains for living room and put them up in the afternoon.  Took ride toward Paterson before supper.  Did shopping for Ella Mae in am.
Comment:  This is all taking place in New Jersey where Ella Mae lived.  Meanwhile, back on the Hill, Marilyn and Jim holding sway....their wedding day about 5 years earlier.

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Thursday, 29 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 29 March 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Lovely day, 60's.  We left for Ella Mae's 130 pm.  Stopped in Saugerties, reached Oakland NJ about 5 o'clock.
Comment:  Mom and Dad on road trip to see her cousin in NJ......Mom as a toddler....four years old??

Wednesday, 28 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 28 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Lovely day, 55.  I washed.  Jim and Marilyn went to Conn. to see about a job.  Kids stayed with us. Clifton went to creamery at Roxbury.  Stella (Rogers) and children were here in afternoon.  Ethridge got a load of hay.  Jim and Marilyn ate supper with Paul and Norma.  Earl and Bob were here at night.  Bob went to ballgame with David and Wayne.
Comment:  Again, lots of callers and traveling...Mom must love the fact the Marilyn and family are home again......their family about that time...53 years ago....

Tuesday, 27 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 27 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
We went to Oneonta and got a flat iron with S&H Green Stamps and on to Mother's for dinner. Wayne went too and got his driver's permit.  Clifton went to Union meeting at night, home late.
David was home and went to auction with Earl.
Comment:  Mom underlined home late...

Monday, 26 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 26 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Fourtie's, nice day.  Clifton and Jim went to Windham and around to look for a job.  Marilyn and I cooked and cleaned the house.  Had a letter from Doug, he thought he would come home next week.
Comment:  Early spring so the construction jobs would probably be opening up. Jim and I both drove for HB Moore out of Windham hauling clinker from Cobleskill to the cement plants near Hudson NY.  Here is a picture of Marilyn and Jim's kids:  Marna, Dan and Patty in 1961 on the Hill...

Sunday, 25 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 25 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day, 30's.  went to Sunday School and church and all of us down to LaVerne's for dinner. Clifford and Evelyn, Winnie, Rudy, Randy, Earl, Bob and Ronnie called in pm.  Marilyn and Carol sang at church, "Burdens Are Lifted At Calvary"
Comment:  Now that's what I call a family Sunday...here is the best version of the hymn that I can find....I'll bet they did a great job...wonder who sang harmony...

Saturday, 24 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 24 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day.  We washed and ironed for Gerald.
Comment:  It's all about me.......Protecting the homeland....

Friday, 23 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 23 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sue and Wayne home with sore throats.  We ironed.  Clifton and Jim cut a load of wood.  Ethridge got a load of hay.  I bought four magazines for four years?!!?
Comment:  Mom excited about the magazines....another picture of Jim and probaby his brother Doug with a grandfather?....

Thursday, 22 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 22 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Forty degrees.  I washed.  Marilyn, Jim and two kids went to Cobleskill.  Marna stayed here.  Sue was home with a sore throat.  Marilyn and I went to Margaretville in afternoon to see Ella, Margaret, Irene and Ivan.  Stella (Rogers) called Marilyn.
Comment:  Lots of neighbors in the hospital....Jim Harris, back row middle, with parents and siblings..

Wednesday, 21 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 21 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, rain turning to snow.  Sue came home with a sore throat.  Called Pearl and heard that Ella and Irene still both in hospital.  Ironed nearly all day.  Went to prayer meeting at night at Leonard's (Reynolds).  Marilyn was the leader.
Comment:  A badass Marine....Jim Harris, Sister Marilyn's Husband

Tuesday, 20 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 20 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day.  We went to Mother's for dinner.  Ella was taken to Margaretville Hospital with pneumonia.  Irene Brown was take too with pleurisy. 
Comment:  Tough start to the spring for some folks.....Aunt Ella on the Hill...Larry, Ella, Frances, Wayne's wife Susan....

Monday, 19 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 19 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day. 35 degrees.  We, (Jim's and us) went to Stamford in am and stopped where LaVerne works. Phyllis and Sheilla and LaVerne and Roberta were here in afternoon.  Billie called and said Louis Mack was in hospital with blood clot and Betty Jean was in hospital too.
Comment:  Phyllis must be Phyllis West and her daughter up to see Marilyn.  Not sure who Louis Mack was.  Betty Jean was Betty Jean Kingsley...Kool Aid ad from 1962...sure drank a lot of that during haying season.  

Sunday, 18 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 18 March 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, 30's.  We all went to church and Sunday School, David, Wayne too.  Marilyn, Carol, Sue and I went to church in the afternoon for lessons on visitation.  Evelyn and Clifford came in pm and here for supper.  Barry, Bev, Glenn, Patsy, Bonnie here later. Ethridge got a small load of hay in am.
Comment:   Busy Sunday....The whole Clifford's visit...on a sad note, Glenn has only about two more years to live...he died  April 11, 1964...Here are Evelyn and her grandson Mark Taylor in 1978

Saturday, 17 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 17 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day.  We washed and baked.  LaVerne and Roberta here in the evening.  Men went in woods in am, saw broke.
Comment:  No St. Pat's revelry here.....John Kennedy's St. Patrick's Day Statement:

Friday, 16 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 16 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Thirties, little snow squally.  We ironed, Marilyn baked a batch of cookies and rolls and cinnamon buns.  Clifton and Jim went with Ethridge with a load of logs to Stamford.  Gerald came home about 530 pm.  Earl, Lillian and Bob here in evening.
Comment:  Bet the house smelled great......Jim and his siblings?..sure resembles Hubbard Hill in the early fifties.....

Thursday, 15 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 15 March 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, 20's.  Marilyn and I cleaned up the house and went calling on Ethyl at Maude's, on Margaret's, Roberta and Merels.  The men went over to Earl's before school to help get the cow up again.  Had a letter from Doug.
Comment:  Marilyn catching up with friends and family...the whole family in 1962...kinda weird to see for some reason....of course, was 58 years ago....

Wednesday, 14 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 14 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Still cloudy and storming.  We washed, went to prayer meeting at Lyle's at night, Marilyn, Carol, Sue and I.  Clifton and Jim cut a load of wood.  Earl was over to get the men to help with a fresh cow. LaVerne and Roberta were here in the afternoon for a few minutes.
Comment:  Must be something pretty wrong with Earl's cow.  A "fresh" cow is one that is having a calf and usually it is pretty routine with no help needed.  The cow usually isn't seen for a while and then is found with a newborn calf.......Here is Patty on the Hill at that time:  

Tuesday, 13 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 13 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Snowy.  We all went to Mother's for dinner, Jim's and us.  Ethridge got a load of hay. Gerald came home at night to see Marilyn and Jim.
Comment:  The family gathers.....Dean and Jim on the hill, 1962

Monday, 12 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 12 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Windy, I washed.  Marilyn, Jim and children came at 11 am.  They had driven through from North Carolina.
Comment:  Short entry probably caused by the reunion.....

Sunday, 11 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 11 March 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice, warm, went to Church and Sunday School and at Raymond and Irene Brown's twenty-fifth anniversary in pm.  Lorraine and Howard's, LaVerne and Roberta here in the afternoon.
Comment:  A twenty-fifth anniversary used to seem such a big deal but since we are facing our fifty-fifth, not so much. Happy Birthday Wayne Morris Hubbard, B 3.11.1946, D 12.3.2005, Age 59 years old.  His Uncle Earl and Aunt Madeline died at about the same age of heart problems.....does he look cool or what??

Saturday, 10 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 10 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Beautiful, sunny 46 degrees.  Clifton, Wayne and girls went to Catskill to find out what Wayne had won.  Robert brought David home and girls went back with her in am.  I washed in am and baked, ironed pants and shirts in pm.
Comment:  Another mystery, I don't have a clue about Wayne's winnings......and the top hits:  

Friday, 9 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 9 March 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, 34.  I washed.  Clifton cut logs and a load of wood.  Ethridge got a load of hay and paid in full, $41.46.  Earl, Lillian, LaVerne, and Roberta were here at night.  David went home with LaVerne and Roberta to draw mail because we were supposed to have snow but didn't get any.  Marilyn called from Shelby, NC and said they would be here Monday or Tuesday.
Comment:  In a conversation with Dean Harris and wife awhile ago he recalls the trip across country with his parents... this picture is from about that time:  Dean, Jim, Patty, Marna.....

Thursday, 8 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 8 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Beautiful, sunny day, warmer, 38 degrees.  I baked cookies for the PTA, wrote to Myrtie and went to Missionary Meeting in pm at church.  Madalyne went with me.  Sent cookies to PTA with Madalyne.  Had card from Marilyn, they were in Texas when it was sent on Monday. Gulf Oil Company agent was here about boundaries.
Comment:  I think Dad may have sold the gas and mineral rights of the property but not sure.  I don't have any records of it for my property there.  Marilyn and Jim heading to NY to stay for about a year......

Wednesday, 7 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 7 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Beautiful, sunny day, 32 degrees.  I washed bedding and slip covers and cleaned all through.  Prayer meeting at night.  Wrote to Doug.  Earl stopped in and asked us to go to Winnies with them but we didn't go.  Clifton cut logs.  Evelyn Bailey here in pm about Stanley goods, bought floor wax.
Comment:  Pretty busy day.....  

Tuesday, 6 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 6 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, roads icy.  I kept the kids home because of icy roads.  We went to Middleburgh diner for dinner then on to Cobleskill.
Comment:  For Mom to keep the kids home, the conditions must have been pretty bad...Dad had a neon green Plymouth just like this....I did severe damage to it twice, both times in Prattsville...what's that tell you....

Monday, 5 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 5 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, very light snow in am.  Fine rain in pm,  25 degrees.  I washed in am and ironed in pm and baked rolls.  Marilyn and Jim's mail was forwarded here.  A letter from their bank and a letter of mine returned.  We called Doug at the Chicken Farm and he said Marilyn and Jim left March 1st.  LaVerne and Roberta here at night.  David went home with them to go with Roberta with the mail because of icy roads.  Ethridge got a load of logs.
Comment:  A longer entry...did not realize Doug was in California....The World's Fair was held in Seattle in 1962 and thence came the space needle....

Sunday, 4 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 4 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice, warmer, 20's, cloudy in pm.  We went to church and Sunday School.  Beverly came home with us and stayed all night.  Clifford's were over to Earl's for Dinner.
Comment:  Don't know who Beverly is.....1962 Coke Ad...Was it a simpler time, not sure......

Saturday, 3 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 3 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, cold, minus 8 to 15 above.  Gerald went back in the afternoon for play practice.  David and Wayne cut a load of wood.
Comment:  I practice, brothers work, seems ok to me....our search options sure have changed.....

Friday, 2 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 2 March 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Bright and cold, eight below to 15 above.  I washed.  David was home with a boil, he and Clifton cut a little wood.  Gerald came home at 5 pm.  Wayne went to the game at Duanesburg.  Clifton, the girls and I went to a "42" party at Louvilla's.  Keyers, Cammers and Chip's were there too.  Betty Jean was home for two weeks vacation.
Comment:  Busy Friday night...from 1962...the latest in telephones, now, all and more included in your smartphone....

Thursday, 1 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 1 March, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Bright, clear, cold, 15.  Clifton and David went to Windham and Albany.  I finished my dress.  Sue was home with a stiff neck and headache.
Comment:  Clear and cold bring back the memories of how beautiful it was in those mountains....from Visions Of Schoharie County: