Thursday, 31 May 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 31 May 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Warm, thunder shower in pm, it rained here the first time in a long time.  Washed in am.  Marilyn and I went to Cobleskill shopping.  LaVerne was burned on his arms and hand at Timberland.  Dean sick with high fever and cold.
Comment:  That charcoal plant was a dangerous place to work.....Dean with his Uncle Doug...

Wednesday, 30 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 30 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day.  Memorial Day.  We took picnic lunch to Cairo.
Comment:  Sounds like a nice day....In 1962 Memorial Day was still officially known as Decoration Day and it was observed on Wednesday, May 30. It was observed on May 30th every year from 1868 to 1971. The name of the holiday was officially changed to Memorial Day in 1966. Memorial Day did not become one of the Monday three-day holidays until the Uniform Monday Holiday Act went into effect on January 1, 1971.   May 30th was chosen for Memorial Day (originally called Decoration Day) because during the US Civil War there were no known battles to have taken place on that particular day of the month. Since 1971 Memorial Day has been on the last Monday of May so the date number is different each year....the internet....

Tuesday, 29 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 29 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day, did ironing.
Comment:  Terse...I've now searched the Thousand Years Of Hubbard History and cannot find either Jabez Hubbard nor any of his progeny in the book...looks like our branch was missed in the research....Here is the first Hubbard Coat Of Arms in the book.....hmmm...what are all those geese doing there....

Monday, 28 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 28 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Clear, cool, 65.  Marilyn, Jim and girls went to Cairo house hunting.  Sue was home with a cold.  We kept Dean.  I washed in pm.  Bunty and Glendon were here for supper.  Avery Hinman died.
Comment:  Avery Hinman owned a large farm toward Stamford, I think, and Dad bought cows from him several times.......I think yesterday's picture was take at the same time as this one, I think also it is at Uncle Clifford's in Franklinton.....From left:  Ina Belle, Roberta, Unknown, Beth is the little girl, unknown, Barry's wife, unknown...correct me if I'm wrong.....

Sunday, 27 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 27 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Clear, fair and cool.  We went to Lorraine's for dinner after church and Sunday School.  David took Sandy Finch.  Gerald didn't go.  We went over and saw Glendon and Bunty's new home.
Comment:  I had forgotten we called Glennie's wife Bunty as well as Bunny....Glennie had about 11 more years to live.  He died at 44 of heart failure...Aunt Lorraine, her daughter Marsha, Bonnie Taylor and I think Marilyn in the background...not sure who the boy is....

Saturday, 26 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 26 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy in am, windy in pm.  65 degrees.  Gerald brought Mary Ann home for dinner.  I washed.  David smashed three fingers fixing front tire on tractor.
Comment:  And I'll bet David still has the scars.....and how the world has changed....

Friday, 25 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 25 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, 60's.  Marilyn and I still didn't feel good.  Finished cleaning Wayne's room.
Comment:  Remember when and who??

Thursday, 24 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 24 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, 60 - 73.  David & Wayne were home from school.  Wayne went shopping with us.  Kids stayed here with Jim and David.  We ate dinner with Poppa and Billy and we both went to to the doctor.  Hurricane warning.  We had only a little rain.
Comment:  Marilyn and Mom must be both sick..Marilyn just sent out a picture of the old barn....

Wednesday, 23 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 23 May 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day.  David, Marilyn, Kids, and I went on Pinkster Mountain and got two evergreen trees, lilac bushes and set them out in pm.  We set out tomato plants too.  Prayer meeting at church at night.  Just us and Grandpa and Louise were there.  They brought us home and stayed a while.
Comment:  Our plant "nursery" was anything that grew on any of the surrounding mountains.  There were many old homesteads through the hills that still sported flowering plants, massive beds of rhubarb and apple and lilac trees...and the CCC had reforested the hills with various evergreens during the depression era....our noble ancestors from whence all Hubbards came invading England....take a look:   https://archive.org/details/onethousandyears00daye

Tuesday, May, 22 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, May, 22 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, cool.  We ironed.
Comment:  Another terse entry.....some forebearers and friends Re 1000 Years Of Hubbard History. Top, Douglas & Edwin Hubbard, Bottom:  E. Warren Day, Compiler, and H.P. Hubbard, the publisher.  This was published in 1895...Great Grandfather Gamalia was born in 1850 and his son Elmer in 1882..not a Jabez, Gamalia, or Elmer in the index, take a look:  https://archive.org/details/onethousandyears00daye

Monday, 21, May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 21, May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, cooler, I washed...

Comment:  Ok then.....Austin Hubbard just forwarded me this tome....I'll take a look and maybe post some things that might be interesting to the family....maybe the elusive parents of Jabez Hubbard, my great great grandfather will emerge...It's free and can be downloaded from the internet btw....see link below
https://archive.org/stream/onethousandyears00daye…

Sunday, 20 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 20 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, hot, 80's, thunder showers at night.  We had only a little rain.  Went to church and Sunday School and at Baptist Camp in pm to Grandpa's birthday party.  Marilyn, Jim and kids went to Cairo in pm.
Comment:  Elmer's birthday was the 18th of May, 1882.  At this entry he is eighty years old with only about 28 more months to live.  He died 21 September, 1964..here he is as county supervisor a long time ago in his prime.  He is third from left in the back row....and the older I get, the more I look like him....wonder who the rest of the men are...

Saturday, 19 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 19 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, hot, 87.  I washed in am then we went to Middleburgh after garden seed, made garden in pm.  Gerald worked.
Comment:  The heat wave continues..not sure what I was working at..probably hauling milk and milk products to retail creameries down along the Hudson river to Poughkeepsie and Peekskill for Joe Gallo and Prospect Dairies.  May have posted this pix before but seems pertinent in this entry.  Dad and David in the garden in 1949...

Friday, 18 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 18 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Hot, 85..Cleaned up house and washed...
Comment:  85 is HOT for Hubbard Hill.....new born Marna with her Great Grandfather  Elmer

and parents...

Thursday, 17 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 17 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny and hot, 84.  Marilyn, Sue, kids and I went to Cobleskill shopping; got girls sneakers.  Marna's birthday, got her some too.  Wrote to Dougie.  Madalyn went to hospital for treatment.
Comment:  Marna as a newborn in 1957...and a link to her first accident....Hubbard Music Mountain: Me and Marna Talking Blues, My Own Ballad Of Fort...:

Wednesday, 16 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 16 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, hot, 80.  Marilyn, children and I called on Mary Schermerhorn  and Madalyn Blakesley in am.  I started to clean my bedroom.  We put geraniums and petunias in window boxes.  Prayer meeting was here at night.
Comment:  Quite warm for the hill at this time of year......the box was probably something like this home-made one.......

Tuesday, 15 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 15 May 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy.  75 degrees.  I washed.  We made flower garden under the windows.  I set out a sage bush.  Marjory and Buzzy (Scutt) were here at night.
Comment:  The Scutt kids lived on Bull Hill road and are some sort of distant relation to the Hubbards through the Haner family...but not sure how....Buzzy was a close friend of Doug and won all sorts of valor awards during the Vietnam War:  Take a look:  Gerry Hubbard's SongPoemStories: The First Army Commendation Medal with "V" Device ..

Gerry Hubbard's SongPoemStories: The Second Award Of The Army Commendation Medal Fo...:

Gerry Hubbard's SongPoemStories: Award Of The Bronze Star For Heroism: Scott, Lawr...:

Cousin Beth at a  wedding....

Monday, 14 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 14 May 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Rainy, clearing in pm, 70's.   We ironed, I did some mending.
Comment:  Terse, Blue Monday??  Guess who?

Sunday, 13 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 13 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Warm, we went to church and Sunday School.  Mother, Norm, LaVerne and Roberta were here for dinner, Mother's day.  Clayton Barkman & Walter Bennett called in pm.  Marilyn's family here.
Comment:  No idea who the evening callers were......Norm, Clarence, Judy & Billie, Foxingkill Picnic....

Saturday, 12 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 12 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, warm, 60.  David and Wayne worked for Carlton Halleck.  I washed, did curtains in front room and girl's room, and got them up.
Comment:  Productive day...Every year or so, Mom's side of the family would have a picnic/reunion in Schoharie in the Fox Creek Park.  We used to call it Foxingkill, btw.  Here is a picture of Mom and her mom at that event. Mom is second from left, Bessie 5th from left and Judith 7th from left...can't id the other folks, can anyone else?

Friday, 11 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 11 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, windy, 60 degrees.  Marilyn, children and I went to Cobleskill in am.  Got curtains for the living room and Carol and Sue pants and blouses.  Gerald home late, sorority weekend.  Clifton, boys took stove down in front room.
Comment:  Sure don't remember the sorority weekend.  I usually did not participate in any frat or sorority functions....first day of school a long time ago...early forties.....

Thursday, 10 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 10, May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Windy, partly cloudy, chilly.  I washed.  Carlton Halleck called at night for David and Wayne to help him Saturday.  Marilyn, children and I went to Missionary Meeting at church in pm.  Louise brought us home.
Comment:  David and Wayne will be doing something on Carlton's large dairy farm in Flat Creek...not sure what....the boys in 1947...David about three, Wayne about two...hardscrabble time on the Hill....that's me in the background about 9 years old....

Wednesday, 9 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 9 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, little warmer, 28 to 50 degrees.  I baked two batches of cookies.  Florence Brandow and Mr. Clay were here inspecting fuse box and chimney.  Marilyn and Marna called on Myrtie in afternoon.  Susan and I went to prayer meeting with Medalyn at church.
Comment:  Marna, Marilyn & Myrtie...hmmm...Marilyn, early forties.....hardscrabble time...

Tuesday, 8 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 8 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cold, cloudy, windy, 35 degrees, snowed on the mountains and a little here at night. We ironed and Lavilla came over in pm.  We visited and had devotions.
Comment:  "Devotions"...her religion was such a large part of her life....

Monday, 7 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 7 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, windy, cold, 35.  I washed.  Sue was home sick with a cold.  Sue and I went to Prattsville and Gilboa in pm after meat and groceries.
Comment:  Chore day....pop history:  It was Monday, under the sign of Taurus. The US president was John F. Kennedy (Democratic). In that special week of May people in US were listening to Soldier Boy byThe Shirelles. In UK Nut Rocker by B Bumble & The Stingers was in the top 5 hits. A Taste of Honey, directed by Tony Richardson, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1962 .  Gotta love that good old rock and roll.....seems so simple now....

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Sunday, 6 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 6 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, windy, 60.  We went to church and Sunday School.  Doris, Willard and Bobby came in pm and stayed for dinner.  Clifford's and Rudy's called in evening.  Carol and I went to church in afternoon to teachers and superintendent meeting.  Gerald went back after dinner.
Comment:  Three families visit on same day.....here is Doris, Willard at Ina Belle's wedding...

Saturday, 5 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 5 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, warmer, 65 degrees.  Clifton didn't work, he fixed track on the garage door.  I washed.  Marilyn, children and I went over to get tire fixed and to Grandpa and Louise's in am.  Marilyn and the kids went down to Stella's in pm with Jim and stayed for supper.  Stella brought them home and David went to Junior Prom at Roxbury. Alton Scutt got hay.  Ethridge got 50 bales.  Wayne's license came.
Comment:  Seems like lots going on...the nephews and nieces on the hill, mid seventies....can you name them...

Friday, 4 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 4 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, windy, 42.  David and Jim went to Albany for Jim's license test.  Grandpa and Louise came home from Florida.  They were over here in evening but Marilyn, Carol, Sue, Wayne and David were down at school for a music festival.
Comment:  Jim's test was for chauffeur's/truck driving  and probably was not easy...Doug 4, Marilyn 11, David 3.  Sweet Corn In The Background

Thursday, 3 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 3 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, 40's.  Windy, rain, showers at night.  Marilyn, kids, Wayne and I went to Schoharie for Wayne's driver's license and did shopping at Middleburgh.  Linda came home with Carol and Marilyn cut her hair.
Comment:  So Wayne was sixteen in March and is now getting his license.....here is Wayne in 1949.....hardscrabble times....house in pretty poor condition.....

Wednesday, 2 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 2 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, 40's, rainy.  I washed.  LaVerne and Roberta here at night.  Susan went home with them.  We didn't go to prayer meeting, had to take car to Grand Gorge to get speedometer fixed.
Comment:  It's always something...If yesterday's picture of Betty Hubbard was taken at Aunt Lorraine's at the time of Roger's birth, here is Aunt Lorraine and Roger at that ....looks like the same house in Schenectady, I think....must have been about 1944 or so....

Tuesday, 1 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 1 May, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, 60.  I baked cookies, wrote to Dougie.  LaVerne & Roberta came up after Sue at night. Marilyn, Jim and the kids and Carol went over to Tom and Betty's at night.
Comment:  Marilyn continues introducing her family to relatives....Betty as a young lady.....bet nobody's seen this picture before.....