Saturday, 30 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 30 June 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Hot and humid.  Marilyn, Jim, and the kids were here for dinner.  Bay baled hay in the barn in the pm. Doug hit a deer with his car and broke a light and grill.
Comment:  Lots of animals hit with cars on those mountain roads.  I recall family, me and others hitting deer, cows, horses, mules, dogs, cats, raccoons, woodchucks, opossums, a larger snapping turtle, and a porcupine.  I once wondered why my car was heating up and found a large ring-necked pheasant in the grill that I didn't know I hit....Grandma Bessie and Marilyn's kids at the time....Marna, Dean, Bessie, Patty...

Friday, 29 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 29 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Hot, 70's.  Doug, Sue and I went to Cobleskill shopping.  I bought two pairs of shoes. Washed in the morning.
Comment:  Must have been humid for it to be "hot" in the seventies.....all the ladies on the hill in 1974...From Left.Bessie, Frances, Grace, Marilyn, Marna, Patty

Thursday, 28 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 28 June 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day.  We took Carol down to Marilyn's in pm.  Jim went to work.  I papered stairway and cleaned up the house:
Comment:  When I think about the heights and steps and corners in the "stairway", I wonder how she could have alone handled all that paste soaked paper and got it on the walls neatly.......Anna Blakeslee might have been "papering" in the old house when she autographed some plaster in 1931...thanks to Elizabeth Solomon Hubbard for the pix from her Facebook page.....

Wednesday, 27 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 27 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Beautiful, clear, cool day.  Finished the ironing and picked berries in am and pm.  Marilyn and all were here at night and we went to prayer meeting.  Mrs. Bal Faiz was here in pm to buy hay.
Clifton home 930.
Comment:  Lots of berries.......not sure who Mrs. Bal Faiz was.....Spring 1955....

Tuesday, 26 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 26 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
I ironed nearly all day.  Joyce Bailey came in afternoon and we made out

Sunday School Charts.
Comment:  Joyce Bailey and family 1956.  She was always very active in the church as pianist, organist and member.

Monday, 25 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 25 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, windy 72.  I washed and picked berries.  Marilyn, Jim and the kids were up at noon for the mail.  LaVerne and Roberta were here in the afternoon.  Donna Hellecker and Bev Bush road horses up and were here for dinner.  Mother called in am.
Comment:  So two acquaintances rode in on horseback and stayed for the noon meal...interesting.. their names are vaguely familiar...1962 rifle ad...things sure have changed or maybe I'm reading different magazines...this was in the Lady's Home Journal

Sunday, 24 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 24 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day, showers in pm.  We went to church and Sunday School.  Marilyn came up after church and got more of their things.  We rode down there at night.
Comment:  Move in continues.....David and Patty....

Saturday, 23 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 23 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Marilyn and I went to sale at Middleburgh, JD Woods.  She bought bedroom suite.  They stayed down there at night for the first time.  Susan stayed with them.
Comment:  First night in Franklinton rental house.  Carol and Marna, Dean and Patty at that time...could be at the rental house....

Friday, 22 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 22 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy.  I washed early in am.  Marilyn, girls and I went to Middleburgh shopping then stopped at Franklinton and helped Marilyn clean.
Comment:  Getting the rental house ready.....

• Franklinton (also called "The Vly") – A location in the north-central part of Broome on NY-145, south of Vlaie Pond.  Vlaie or Vly is a word for swamp which comes from the Dutch settlers of the area.  We always called it The Fly....Uncle Clifford used to run this store in the early-mid forties and I remember going in and  buying stuff.  I remember him telling my Dad about some scam some "city people" tried on him involving change for a big bill but have forgotten the details.  Aunt Evelyn's and Uncle Clifford's house was up the street on the left just out of view....I have fond memories of Franklinton and playing with James Barry and Glenn Taylor, both slightly younger than I.  We also visited "The Vly"...

  

  Uncle Clifford Taylor's Store

Thursday, 21 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 21 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, Marilyn and I went to school to Carol's and Sue's graduations.  Rolling Earl's called and said house was ready for Marilyn and Jim.

Comment:  The house was in Franklinton very close to where Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Clifford lived...here is an old picture of Franklinton.  Not sure where Clifford's store and house were.....

 

Wednesday, 20 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 20 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, cool, Liltecia?? stopped and want me to go to Grand Gorge wither her.  Papa and Billy came in pm and picked berries.
Comment:  Grandpa Elmer's patent:  The purpose of this invention is the provision in a single machine of means whereby stone may be crushed for surfacing a roadway, the crushed stone graded and then deposited upon the roadway inlayers of as sorted sizes, means for rolling the roadway, and a machine which may be used as a traction engine for hauling loads or for performing any desire work requiring power.

Tuesday, 19 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 19 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, cool.  Picked berries and put them in freezer.
Comment: More strawberried.  Patent of Grandfather Elmer Hubbard:  Thanks LaVerne and Brian Goodfellow:  Combined Traction Stone Crusher and Road-Roller..Patent US 1042230:

Monday, 18 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 18 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
I washed but clothes didn't dry too good.  Picked berries in pm.
Comment: Red sky at night, sailor's.......

Sunday, 17 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 17 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny and windy.  We went to church and Sunday School.  Doug and Larry were here when we got home.  LaVerne and Roberta were here in pm.  Schermerhorn boys and girlfriends, Mary Anne, Earl, Lillian, Bob and Ronnie.  Marilyn, Roberta, Carol, Sue, Marna and I went to Franklinton in pm to look at Abe Earl's house.  Stopped and Grandpa's and Louise's. 
Comment:  I think "Larry" is Larry or Buzzy Scutt.  A busy Sunday....one of my favorite pictures....view to Grand Gorge...

Saturday, 16 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 16 June 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Warm, sunny, 75.  Wayne, Carol, Sue, Gill and I went to Cobleskill for dresses and shoes for the girls.  Went up to Mother's for dinner.  Madalyn came home from the hospital.  Marilyn, Jim, and family came home from their trip.  Marilyn and I called on Madalyn.
Comment:  Marilyn and Jim have been gone since Wednesday, originally headed for Carolyn's and Merel Jr's.....Don't know Gill.....view from the "Cross Road"...A comment from my brother LaVerne:  From LaVerne: Gilbert Gale was a friend of Carol's. He was killed in an accident shortly after this. His mother Hilda was spending time with Uncle Earl, she was with him in the car when he died. She called me a 4;30 that morning with the news that Uncle Earl had died. They were around Gallupville in the car when he had the heart attack. Ran off the road, Hilda was not hurt. I THING THE LOSS OF GILBERT WAS HEAVY FOR CAROL.

Friday, 15 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 15 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy and warm.  I washed and picked a big dish of strawberries.

Comment: This looks just like the strawberries we bought in Cascais, Portugal in June 2015.

Thursday, 14 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 14 June 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, cool.  Went to Missionary Meeting with Myrtie to Lavilla's.  Doug called at night, he was in New Castle Colorado.  LaVerne and Roberta were here at night  Sue went home with them.  We took the stove down in the living room.  Picked first strawberries.
Comment:  Doug coming home from California I guess....the first sign of summer, taking the stove down.....Walmart's first ad in 1962..

Wednesday, 13 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 13 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Marilyn, Jim and kids left for Carolyn's and Merel Jr's .  I finished the ironing.
Comment:  Visiting.....Oldest sons with Mothers....not sure what year.....

Tuesday, 12 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 12 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Rainy day.  Clifton went to work and came back.  Wayne, Marilyn, the kids and I went to Middleburgh and Schoharie.  I had tooth out.  Jean and Julia went with us.  Marilyn and I went down to Jean and Doris Jackson's in pm but didn't see the place in Manorkill.
Comment:  Hmmm...no mention of Marilyn's birthday...

Monday, 11 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 11 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, little rain in am early.  Windy, 73.  We washed, did some ironing.  Jean Gleason and Julia were here for supper.
Comment:  Not sure who these gals are either....Early Happy Birthday, Marilyn Ann Hubbard...the hardscrabble days....

Sunday, 10 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 10 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, warm, 75.  We went to church and Sunday School.  Laverne and Roberta here for dinner. Went to parsonage in pm to see slides missionary had.  Marilyn, Jim, Dean, Patty, Clifton and I went to Livingstonville and Preston Hollow in afternoon; stopped at Bob Van Buren's.  Drove down to Clifford's, no one home.   Went down to LaVerne's at night after Marna, Carol and Sue.  I had a bad tooth ache.
Comment:  The Flat Creek Baptist Church Parsonage.....another very active Sunday....

Saturday, 9 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 9 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day, hot.  The girls, Dean, Marilyn and I went to Cairo house hunting and after groceries.  Lyle's, Grandpa and Louise were here for supper.  Earl's called in evening.
Comment:   They never did get a house in Cairo....Uncle Earl's license photo....

Friday, 8 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 8 June 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
We washed.  Paper came for kitchen.  We did it in the afternoon.
Comment:  Busy, busy.....Never knew it was really 

 Onistagrava Mountain.  The light print upper left says"Vrooman Nose or Onistagrava Mountain."  There is no Google reference for Onistagrava except this picture.  Vrooman's nose experts?

Thursday, 7 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 7 June 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Clear, cool in am, 42 to 68.  I finished painting kitchen.  Doris Jackson Potter and Jean Jackson Merwin and families were here in afternoon.
Comment: Jean and Doris both childhood friends of us.  August moon on the hill

Wednesday, 6 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 6 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny and clear, 70's.  I washed in am, painted kitchen ceiling another coat and rest of cupboards.  Carol fell in school and hurt her hip and elbow.  Marilyn, Sue and I went to prayer meeting at night and called on Vadna (Buel).  HB Moore called for Jim. Called on Merel's in afternoon.
Comment:  It's always something.....all the ladies and Jeffrey of course....

Tuesday, 5 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 5 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Rainy and cool, 50's.  I painted some more in kitchen.  Jim and Wayne went to Middleburgh and had car fixed, gone all day.  Gerald went to work and came back. Rained all night.  One and a half inches.  Doug called and said he planned on leaving for home Monday or Tuesday.
Comment:  Hmmm not sure what happened with work, also no indication what was wrong with the car...lot's of rain though.....Dad & Mom in living room on the hill..from Marna...

Monday, 4 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 4 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Clear, 70.  Marilyn, Jim and the kids went to Middleburgh.  Had dinner with Poppa and Billy.  I ironed in am and did some painting in the kitchen.  Gerald drove milk truck to Peekskill for Joe Gallo.
Comment:  Joe had called me a couple of days before and asked If I could immediately drive a milk rig to Norwich with a driver who was too drunk to drive.  I took the trip although I had never driven a tractor-trailer before.  Back then all you needed was a Class 1 Chauffeur's license to drive anything....I had driven ten wheeler batch trucks for HB Moore the previous summer and fall so could handle all the transmission and general truck stuff...At every stop the driver would run into the nearest bar and get another drink.  In Norwich, he took off and didn't return for about a half hour after I unloaded.  I waited for him even though the creamery guys were urging me to leave him...I did not and made a friend for life..too bad I can't remember his name..Joe appreciated it also and gave me many trips that summer...this is the truck only with a reefer...

Sunday, 3 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 3 June 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, 70.  We went to church and Sunday School.  LaVerne, Roberta, and Mr. Mayo were here for dinner.  Marilyn and Jim and the kids went over to Mother's in pm.  We rode around the Mountain and got pinksters, stopped at Earl's awhile and Grandpa and Louise were here in the evening.  Brink paid us for the logs.
Comment:  Sounds like a nice day..and some money came in...Wow..googled pinkster and came up with lots of stuff other than a pink flower:  

Pinkster: Agreeably British Gin, A Pinkster is the alpha female

 in a wolf pack. 

Maybe it's just Mom's spelling.....

Saturday, 2 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 2 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, 65 degrees.  I washed.  Gerald was home.  Marilyn and Jim went to Cairo in am and at Barry's at night.  Boys planted rest of potatoes and corn and mowed the lawn.  Stella and Paula were here in evening.
Comment:  Stella was Stella Rogers, not sure who Paula is.....Doug, Marilyn, Jim, Patty, Dean Marna, 1960....

Friday, 1 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 1 June, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
A very dry month.  Cool, partly cloudy.  We set out rose bush, glads, etc.  Clifton, girls and I went down to LaVerne and Roberta's at night.
Comment:  Another little more fierce Hubbard coat of arms.....the motto is variously translated from Latin as "Neither Fear Nor Spurn", "Neither Fear Nor Despise", and Neither Fear Nor Scorn......hmmmmm.....the previous coat of arms with the swans or geese said "Alta Petens" meaning "Seeking Things Above" or "Aiming High" in the vernacular.....