Tuesday, 31 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 31 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Thunder showers early am, cloudy.  I washed.  Marilyn, Mary and kids here in am.  Carol went home with them.  Doug hit LeRoy's cow with Gerald's car.
Comment:  I'd bought an Oldsmobile for $35.  It ran good and I was going to paint it up and sell it.  I'd finished the primer and Doug was using it.  Not sure it was licensed.  The impact wrecked the hood and I ended up junking it in the woods.  Doug was not hurt.....shit happens.....hitting cows was not uncommon.  I've hit several and once one of our own....this pix is very close to what I saw when I hit one of Dad's cows with his car...cow was ok, little damage to car.....our cow was white....

Monday, 30 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 30 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day.   I picked beans in am.  Madelyn and Mrs. Bohlen and I went to mountain after huckleberries, had 5 pints.  Donna and Amy rode horse up.
Comment:  Madelyn was neighbor Madelyn Blakesley and Mrs.  Bohlen lived on Bohlen Road about 2 miles away...I remember Dad and I helping Mr. Bohlen butcher a heifer and some pigs one wet cold autumn day.  I put the heifer down with a .22 rifle shot between her eyes.  The pigs were small so we did not have to shoot or stun them, just slit their throats....a 1962 pix of a clam bake on Hubbard Hill...can you name the people...

Sunday, 29 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 29 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, rained hard in Franklinton.  We were all at Clifford's for a picnic in pm for Ina Belle.  Girls and I went to church at night.  Clayton duBoise preached at night.  Mayo's in Ohio.
Comment:  Hmmm...still don't know what's going on with Ina Belle....here is picture of that occasion...From left: 

 LaVerne, Rudy, Glenn, Clifton, Gerald, Barry, Doug, Wayne, 58 years ago today....I am the only one in this picture still living.

 

Saturday, 28 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 28 July 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Marilyn, kids, and the girls and I went to Cobleskill shopping and up to Mother's.  I washed in am.
Comment:  Happy Birthday Maude Bailey Haskin, here she is on her wedding day.  Almon is my father's first cousin.  Maude is 102 on this date in 2015 and will die a short time later on August 21, 2015.  Here is her obit:  https://www.merenessputnamfuneralhome.com/obituary/Maude-Haskin

Friday, 27 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 27 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, cold, 42.  Ina Belle left in am for Earl's.  Girls and I went to camp at night.
Comment:  Earl's was about three miles away...hmmm..."Winter is coming".....Comment From Susan: Mom had two foster girls at this time, for a short while: Maxine Maxwell and Marjorie Coop, or Croop… the girls were cousins.  Sweet little things, around 7 and 8 years old.  Marjorie had appendicitis while with us.  She complained of a pain in her side for a few days – but nothing severe – come to find out it was appendicitis.  She was a tough little girl.  They both were from around Middleburgh way (SchoharieCounty).  The girls were there only a few months through the summer as I recall.  Dad got to drinking, and Mom, reluctantly, thought it was better no to keep the girls.  I have often thought of those little girls – how they ended up. Mom saw Marjorie several years later around Middleburgh, and spoke to her then.

Susan

Thursday, 26 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 26 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Marilyn and kids came in pm and stayed for supper.  Sue, Carol and Sue went to Camp to services.  Ina Belle came and stayed all night.  Gerald didn't work and went to Gloversville in pm. I ironed, picked peas and a few cucumbers.
Comment:  Not sure who the second Sue is.  Kinda rare for Ina Belle to stay all night....here she is with me and Marilyn on the front steps, about 1939 or so....

Wednesday, 25 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 25 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Thunder showers in pm.  I cleaned upstairs and finished the little bedroom for girls for a clothes closet.  Girls and I went to prayer meeting and Camp at night.
Comment:  Happy birthday Carol Sylvia....Hubbard Hill, looking east to Otis Hall's...Carol five of six months old.

Tuesday, 24 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 24 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
dCloudy, clearing in pm.  I papered girl's room.  Picked peas and cucumbers.  Girls and I went to Camp at night.
Comment:  Camp was the Bible camp of Louis Ferris Hubbard, Elmer's wife.....

Monday, 23 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 23 July 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy and windy.  I did a big wash.  Thundershowers in the afternoon.  Paper and paint came for girl's room.  Sue and I painted it.
Comment:  Busy Monday...

Sunday, 22 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 22 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day.  Went to church and Sunday School in morning and evening.  Ina Belle got to Lorraine's 7pm for two-week vacation.  Ronald and Anita here in pm.  Bonnie (Brown) Mace had a 9lb girl.
Comment:  And life goes on...Bonnie was a classmate of mine.....here she is second from left first row 6 years prior....can you name the rest of them??

Saturday, 21 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 21 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cool in am.  David went with Gerald to Peekskill.  Girls and I and Marilyn and kids went to Middleburgh in am shopping.
Comment:  Another 8 to 10 hour run delivering packaged milk to retail dairies down along the Hudson.  Got $20 for the milk run and could get another $5 if I picked up blocks of ice and took them back to Stamford's Prospect Dairies....not bad money at the time.....Here is Maude Haskins, Dad's first cousin by marriage, at eleven years of age.  She was 102 on July 28 of 2015 when this was originally posted.

Friday, 20 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 20 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Seventies...I sewed on Carol's dress and picked peas.  Lillian and three boys over in pm.  Louise and Grandpa here for a few minutes at night.
Comment:  I'm again struck by the number of drop-in guests we had during that time.  Almost everyday, somebody stops by and many times, stays for a meal...some more pics of Almon Haskins, Dad's first cousin.....

Thursday, 19 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 19 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day.  I made Sue's dress and pickled beans.  Donna Hillicker was here.  Went home in afternoon.
Comment:  Almon Haskins...Dad's first cousin on Mother's side....

Wednesday, 18 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 18 July 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy and rainy.  I washed.  The worst day this week but the clothes dried.  Hard shower at about 4pm.  Clifton and I went to Dr. Palen at night.  Marilyn and kids were here and three girls from Roxbury were here for supper.
Comment:  Doc Palen was the go-to doctor in Margaretville for most of the family after Uncle Merel had been his patient and lauded him.  Not sure why they are visiting him but probably Mom's headaches.  When I was 16, he took my appendix out and left at least a 7-inch scar like a piece of rope and it took about a year for me to recover.  For a long time even into adulthood,  the scar would cramp up whenever I tried to raise my right leg.  I also could not straighten up for months after the operation.   Me, when I was cute, what happened?

Tuesday, 17 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 17 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day, finished my dress.  Donna Hillicker was here and she and Carol rode bikes over to Earl's.  I went over after them and then down to church to decide on paint and drapes.  Flora Del had a girl.
Comment:  At the time, Flora Del was married to a classmate of mine, Donald Tompkins.  I thinks this was her first child.  Here is a picture of all of her daughters in 1981......about 20 years later...

Kim, Kathy, Karen Tompkins, Dougie, John, Jeffery Hubbard

Monday, 16 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 16 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day.  I did some ironing and cut out my dress, picked beans.
Comment:  Few words, probably quite a lot of work....1962 ad from the Ladies Home Journal....pretty cool car...until Ralph Nader

Sunday, 15 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 15 July 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Lovely day.  Went to church and Sunday School and then to Marilyn's for dinner.  Had a birthday party for Susan and Carol.  LaVerne, Roberta, Gerald, and Mary Ann came too.  We went to church at night, closing program for Vacation Bible School.  Had chalk artist, a lot there.
Comment:  Susan & Carol couple of years ago...Susan BD 7.15, Carol's 7.25.....

Saturday, 14 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 14 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, clear all day, 75.  The girls and I went and helped clean the church in am. Picked peas, cleaned the house.  The boys baled hay on lower side of road.  Went over to Mother's at night after the table for Marilyn's.
Comment:  Baling hay the way we used to do it....we even had an old Farmall H similar to this....

Wednesday, 13 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 13 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy and cool.  Marilyn, Jim and the kids left for Carolyn's and Merel Jr's.  I finished the ironing.
Comment:  A visit to first cousin Merel Jr, oldest child of Aunt Ella and Uncle Merel....Merel Jr. as a toddler with older sister Betty...mid 1930's...

Tuesday, 12 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 12 July, 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 a tooth out.  Jean and Julia went with us.  Marilyn and I went down to Jean and Doris Jackson's in pm but did not see the place at Manorkill.
Comment:  Rainy day at the dam......

Monday, 11 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 11 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, little rain in the am early, windy, 73.  We washed and did some ironing.  Jean Gleason and Julia were here for supper.
Comment:  Not sure who the Gleason's were...this picture is from Visions Of Schoharie County....for more got to this Facebook page.  Brings back beautiful memories with beautiful pictures almost on a daily basis....

https://www.facebook.com/visionsofschoharievalley/

Tuesday, 10 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 10 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day, went to Vacation Bible School.  Washed in afternoon.  Clothes dried good.
Comment:  And another day passes.....

Sunday, 8 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 8 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Hot and very dry, 88 degrees.  Marilyn, Jim and children were here for dinner, they went to Leonard's (Haskins) in the pm.  Dean stayed here.  We went down to LaVerne's in the truck, no one there.  Larry left in the afternoon to "bound"??? in Grand Gorge.  Doug got his car at Catskill and fixed it.
Comment:   I'm guessing Larry is Larry or Buzzy Scutt and not sure what he went to Grand Gorge for......Dean amd his Dad on the farm at that time....

Saturday, 7 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 7 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Fair, in the 70's.  Boys finished baling hay and cut all of the field in back of the house.  Carol and I took cupcakes to bake sale at Brown's and went to Marilyn's and got Sue.  They came up at noon and washed car at Hall's.  Wayne and Red drove Doug's car to Catskill and had to leave it all night because it wouldn't start.
Comment:  Red is Red Schemerhorn from Bull Hill Road.  Wonder how they got home...many incidents like that...also the well and spring may be running dry if they washed the car at Hall's....here's how we all looked at that time.....

Monday, 9 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 9 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Hot, 70 degrees at 530 am.  Hard thunder showers at 8am, cooler, partly cloudy and windy.  No lights until 2 pm.  Bad wind storm in Hobart.  First day of Vacation Bible School. Bonnie Schaefer here in afternoon, we went over and picked up Linda.
Comment:  The storm was probably starkly beautiful....

Friday, 6 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 6 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Clear and warm, 70, very dry.  Boys baled hay and go it in.  I washed in am.  Carol and I called on Hilda Fancher and Parkers in evening about children coming to Vacation Bible School on Monday.
Comment:  Mom the recruiter.....hmmm, I don't seem to remember it being as much fun as this picture......it certainly was not a party....

Thursday, 5 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 5 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, 45 to 70.  Carol, Sue and I went to Middleburgh.  Sue stayed with Marilyn.  Went to prayer meeting.  Boys worked on machinery almost all day.  Finished cutting the field by Hall's.
Comment:  Typical to spend more time fixing and prepping the equipment than actually doing the work..two steps forward, one step back...

Wednesday, 4 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 4 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, warm.  Mother and Norm, Poppa and Bille were here, all our family except Gerald who had to work. Sandy Finch was here.  Aunt Flora and Emma came after dinner.  We ate outside.  LaVerne's, Marilyn and Jim and us went to Schoharie to see fireworks at night.  Boys started haying.  Cut part of the field next to Halls....
Comment:  Except for me, the family gathers....damn the holidays, the milk must go through....."It was Wednesday, under the sign of Cancer. The US president was John F. Kennedy (Democratic). In that special week of July people in US were listening to The Stripper by David Rose and His Orchestra. In UK I Can't Stop Loving You by Ray Charles was in the top 5 hits. Birdman of Alcatraz, directed by John Frankenheimer, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1962 ."

Tuesday, 3 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 3 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, clear, 70's.  Got ready for 4th.  Did some ironing.  David, Gerald got home from Mass. 7pm.
Comment:  Wow.. 36 hours trucking from 7am Monday to 7pm Tuesday..gotta be something illegal about that...

Monday, 2 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 2 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Beautiful day, clear, 45 in am, 70's pm.  I washed and worked in the garden a little. Gerald went to work 7am.  He called for someone to to go with him at night with a load of charcoal to Worcester, MA after he got back from Peekskill.
Comment:   Gonna be along day...I remember that run.  David John went with me and drove after I started hallucinating.  To avoid tolls, had to run Rt 20 with all its steep hills, small towns and low bridges...was not fun...from and old trucker song.."there ain't no easy runs"......

Sunday, 1 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 1 July, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Beautiful day, clear, cool.  Went to church and Sunday School.  LaVerne and Roberta came up in the afternoon and we went down to Marilyn's.  Sandy, LaVerne and Roberta were here for supper.  Mother called, she was down to Aunt Flores.  Gerald went to Gloversville.
Comment:  Church and family Sunday......Marine Marilyn Ann Hubbard, Wave Charlotte Haskins...best friends and cousins....1955 on Hubbard Hill