Sunday 8 May, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Mother's Day. Cloudy, cool, some rain, 30-42. Clifton, the girls and I went to church and Sunday School. Had another candidate, Lawrence Thomas from BBTL. Very good. David went after mother. Just her, the girls, Clifton and myself here for dinner. LaVerne's came in pm and left John. Wayne's and Rudy's came later. We took mother back around 7pm. Gerald and Mary Ann called in pm.
Comment: Busy Mother's day. BBTL must be a bible school from somewhere....
Saturday, 7 May 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
20-42, cold, windy but sunny. I baked a pie, went over to Wayne's in am and stopped at LaVerne's a few minutes. Sandy Berrycnilloi's ? shower but we didn't go. Clifton, the girls and I went to LaVerne's at night.
Comment: Lots of drop-ins on family......I think this is LaVerne as a baby. I seem to remember pictures of him with a big curl on top of his head.....
Friday, 6 May, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, cool. I took Marilyn Koerner, Mary and Laura and baby to Dr. Leahy in Albany. Got home 7 pm. Sue went to concert at school and I picked her up at 1130 pm. Carol went to drive-in with Gilbert. LaVerne, Roberta and John here for supper.
Comment: Busy day for Mom.....Guess who, GHS Class of 1954....
Thursday, 5 May, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, 50's and 60's, lovely day. Wayne called at 9am and asked me to come over and take Laura and Michelle to Dr. Naso in pm. Michelle seemed to have a cold and couldn't breathe good. Lye and Madelyn went to prayer meeting with me at night. Ella and Barbara Mayo and Marlene here in am.
Comment: Busy day...here is a picture of the Flat Creek Baptist Church a long time ago......
Wednesday, 4 May, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cold, snowy in am, windy. I ironed in am. Sue home. We took Mr. and Mrs. Enke to Prattsville to meet bus i pm, 1:30. Stopped at Laura's a few minutes. Wrote to Doug. Had letter from Marilyn.
Comment: Lots of letter writing. Doug is coming home every weekend and she still writes to him..the Enkes were from NYC and bought my Uncle Earl's farm in the mid fifties and tried to make a go at farming but never could. They must have been going back to the city....they were good neighbors. Second grade class Gilboa Central about 1943 or so. Sister Marilyn in second from right in first row.
Tuesday, 3 May 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Fair in am, cloudy in pm, 50's. I cut out and made blue and white house dress, sowed cabbage and tomato seeds and transplanted some African violets. Clyda Mace here in pm with a petition and we had a good visit.
Comment: Clyda Mace was Clyda Bailey who got her first name from her father, Clyde Bailey. The Mace and Bailey families both lived on Mace Road in Broom Center and Clyda married Stewart Mace. She has written extensively about life in the Catskills and Stewart and Beatrice Haskin published her writings in date order from May 15, 1986, through December 21, 1994. It has a complete index of all the people, events, places and events that she wrote about and a very interesting read. Clyda was the Gilboa High School Salutatorian in 1944.
Monday, 2 May, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day but cold, around 40. I washed. Wayne, Laura and Mary here all afternoon. They went to Koerner's for supper and stopped at ??d in evening.
Comment: Guess Mary must be Mary Briggs but now sure. Where they stopped in evening is illegible....see for your self.....
Sunday, 1 May 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Rainy in am, 40's. Girls and I went to church and Sunday School. Mr. James a candidate, (for preacher) and Raymond and Lavilla here for dinner. Clifton and I went to Grand Gorge and met LaVerne's and they went with us to look at lambs in Charlottesville. Ate supper at LaVerne's. I stopped at church. Talked over DVBS. (Daily Vacation Bible School).
Comment: Busy Sunday and May Day and also International Workers Day which commemorates the "Haymarket Affair or the Haymarket Massacre when workers supported a strike for an 8 hour work day and some idiot threw a dynamite bomb at the police and seven police and four civilians were killed. Ironic that they are looking at lambs, the symbol for peace and innocence on this day of a massacre.
Take a look:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair
Saturday, 30 April, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, 50's, rain in afternoon. Clifton had to work. I made dining room curtains, Carol did some cleaning. Mary Ann C. and Mother came after her at 5 pm and they went to Middleburgh at night. Many here for supper.
Comment: Not sure who Mary Ann C is...."Many" did not include Wayne and Laura because they are visiting us in Niagara Falls...and here they are on a windy day with Mary Ann...
Friday, 29 April, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, warmer, 50's. Girls and I went to Cobleskill shopping and to Mother's for dinner. LaVerne, Roberta and John here in evening. Wayne and Laura went to Niagara Falls.
Comment: Lots of family contact. Wayne and Laura of course are visiting me and Mary Ann at the Peter Pan Apartments at the foot of the North Grand Island Bridge. They would get off on Niagara Falls Boulevard. We got lots of visitors while we lived in the Falls, and became pretty good tour guides for the sights and sounds of the area. It always struck me how cheaply commercialized the US side was compared to the Canadian side......
Thursday, 28 April, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Freezing, rainy and cold, 24. I fixed two skirts for Sue. Carol at Wayne's. Laura brought her home about 5 pm. Sue and I went to prayer meeting at Evelyn's at night.
Comment: Cold in a hurry....Carol on the lawn with Prince, the dog that fell off the tower, his left leg is sticking out because it is stiff from the hip down. If that ain't country.....
Wednesday, 27 April 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, cold, 32. I ironed and papered stairway in am. Carol vacuumed and cleaned. The girls and I went to Roberta's and Laura's in the afternoon and got quite a few groceries. Sue and I took Carol over to Wayne's at night.
Comment: No mention that today is Dad's birthday, born April 27, 1908, and died January 4, 1984, at the age of 76. He would have been 58 years old on this date. Here is a picture of him at about that time. I think the Sue is holding Wayne's first daughter Michelle, and believe that's John, LaVerne's oldest is in front of Mom. Bessie is partially hidden to the right. Here is my tribute to him in bad poetry and rather sketchy guitar playing....take a listen.
http://hubbardfamilymusic.tumblr.com/post/4561847981/dad-a-confession-original-by-gerry-hubbard
Tuesday, 26 April 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy and cool. I did some ironing in pm and finished half in am. Clifton and some other men went to Ilion at night to see a man in the hospital.
Comment: Not sure who the man was. Ilion was the original name for the ancient city of Troy. The founder of Remington Arms, Eliphalet Remington was born in Ilion, NY. Remington makes the 2nd most popular firearm in the world, the Remington 870 Wingmaster pump action shotgun. They also developed or adopted more cartridges than any company in the world, are the oldest company in the US that still makes its original product and is the oldest continuing manufacturer in North America. They are also moving some operations to Alabama and reducing the Ilion workforces because of the SAFE act recently passed in New York....betcha that's more than you ever wanted to know about Ilion, NY....I think Uncle Earl had one and I know other relatives did also...
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| Remington 870 Wingmaster |
Monday, 25 April, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy in early am becoming sunny, 50's and windy. I did big wash. No school, spring vacation. Sue at Wayne's, Carol about sick with a cold. Meteorite seen from Washington to Montreal.
Comment: The meteor of that date was big deal and it looks like it went right over the Hubbard Hill area. "April 25, 1966: This brilliant exploding meteor passed northward over New Jersey and eastern New York into Canada along a flat trajectory. Observations were analyzed by both U.S. and Canadian experts, who determined that the end point of the meteor's visible path was at an altitude of around 9 miles (15 kilometers) near Huntingdon, Quebec. Canadian astronomers B.A. McIntosh and J.A.V. Douglas noted, "The anticlimax of so spectacular an event is surely the failure to recover meteorites ... Much of the possible fall area is either sparsely populated or unfavorable terrain for recovery." They suggest that part of the meteoritic mass may have come down in the rugged Adirondack Mountains, along the trajectory but before the end point. "
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| Meteor From Utica, NY |
Sunday, 24 April, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, rainy. Girls and I went to church and Sunday School. Mayo's last Sunday. Wayne and Laura here for dinner. They, Sue and Earl took Doug to Kingston. I went to church and night. Lyle and Madelyn went with me.
Comment: Haven't heard anything about Uncle Earl for a while. He died at 58 from untreated heart disease. Here is my tribute to him. he was quite a guy. Take a listen: Hubbard Music Mountain: Uncle Earl Born August 1, 1910, Died May 4, 1968
Saturday 23 April, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Lovely sunny day, 60's. Rained at night. Doug and Dad cleaned wood house and around outside. Clifton got hit in the eye with a wire. We took him to Dr. Tepfer and he sent him to a specialist in Hudson, Dr. Little. Carol went out at night. Clifton went to funeral with Bob. Sue and I went to party for Mayo's at church hall.
Comment: Not sure who Bob is, maybe Bob Renz, LaVerne's father-in-law. There was always lots of tangled baling and barbed wire and pieces of cable laying around that was a pain in the ass to keep cleaned up....
Friday, 22 April, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy. Carol and I went after Doug at Kingston. I did shopping at Cairo. Carol and I went with Roberta to shower for Marsha at night. Susan went to gym drive at school.
Comment: I'm guessing Marsha must be Marsha Vaughn, Aunt Lorraine's daughter...Hubbards and Hallenbecks on the Hill in 1967....Mom, Mary Ann, Mary, Dad, Me, George
Thursday, 21 April, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Mostly sunny, 68, windy. I had sick headache all day. Was supposed to go to Oneonta with Madelyn and Lavilla after a gift for Mayo's but I didn't feel like it.
Comment: Laid low again.....Kids on Dad's truck: Susan, Carol, David, Doug, Wayne..about 1953 or so....that's a big old FWD.....
Wednesday 20 April, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Rainy, 40's. Carol stayed home from school. She did the hall upstairs and I papered the dining room. We went to Laverne's at night and on over to Wayne's but they weren't there.
Comment: Guess I didn't realize Carol could "paper", she might have just prepped it....old wallpapering board...I remember our's has having old newspapers stuck to it....
Tuesday, 19 April, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Mostly sunny, 50's. I got dining room ready to paper and went to Home Bureau at Madelyn's in pm. Did rust chairs.
Comment: I think she made slipcovers for the chairs at the Home Bureau meeting but not sure.....Here is the Home Bureau Creed...I guess you could aspire to a lot less....and the Home Bureau Emblem....the acorn represents a "great growth from a small beginning"...
Monday, 18 April, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day, 60's, some cloudiness. I washed, hung everything outside. Wrote to Marilyn, David started working at Oneonta again.
Comment: Me on the Hill, probably 1940 or so..
Sunday, 17 April, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Mostly sunny and warm, 50's. Girls and I went to church and Sunday School. LaVerne's and Mary here for dinner. Girls went home with LaVerne's and Clifton and I met Hallenbecks (Mary Ann's parents) at Cobleskill. Got Carol's coat, had coffee, came home, stopped at LaVerne's. Wayne and Laura there. I stopped at church and Evelyn and Joyce brought me home. Gerald and Mary Ann called from Gloversville about 1 pm. Mary Ann sick with the flu.
Comment: Very busy Sunday....George and Mary Hallenbeck at our wedding in 1965...good people....very missed.....
Saturday, 16 April 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Mostly Cloudy, 50. Wayne and Laura here in afternoon and Michelle too and stayed for supper. Took a pie and went to call on Phyllis at night, her folks were there. Glenna (?) Swella sick with pneumonia and in Kingston Hospital.
Comment: Glenna is a friend from church....Here is a memory of Dad from an article in the Gilboa Historical Society, I think by Art Van Acken when he was driving a truck for Dad....Here is Dad with his grader.....
Clifton Hubbard was superintendent of highways and helping to rebuild the
surface of the ball field at the Gilboa-Conesville Central School.
My job was to bring gravel from a bank near South Gilboa to the ball field, and Clifton would level it off with the town grader.
I had taken the muffler off the truck and used just a straight pipe—I enjoyed the rumble, but even I’ll admit it was loud.
On this one trip, heavily loaded with gravel and roaring along, I found my
brakes had gone straight to the floor. No brakes in a heavily loaded truck com-
ing into the village of Grand Gorge! By downshifting, I was able to make it
through Grand Gorge, then left and over the hill to Gilboa and the dam. I made
it to the school, unloaded the truck, and immediately worked on the brakes.
I am sure that making the trip down the hill north of Grand Gorge without
a muffler and with no brakes must’ve sounded like German dive bombers.
I never told Clifton I had lost the brakes, and he probably thought I was just
showing off ! He was a man who seldom lost his cool.
As a senior who was there said, “Safety back then was something to be dealt
with each day. I think these reflect that period.”
Friday, 15 April, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy and warmer, 50's. Did some cleaning in am. David met Doug at Kingston. Madelyn and I went to Cobleskill shopping and I got new glasses. Had letter from Marilyn. Carol went to dance at school with Gilbert.
Comment: Weekend pass for Doug again. Mom and Madelyn together a lot lately..
Sister Marilyn's son, Danny, on visit to the Hill....not sure when...playing with the cattle......
Thursday, 14 April, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, 40's. I fixed grey dress and put some winter clothes away. David took me to Lyle's and I went to prayer meeting with Joyce. Clifton home late. Went to Missionary Meeting at Virginia's with Madelyn in afternoon.
Comment: Probably a big relief in putting away the winter clothes....Spring is here...View From The Fire Tower
Wednesday, 13 April, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy and cool, strong east wind. I finished ironing in am and cleaned. Went to Myrtie's after sunshine basket for Phyliss Clapper. Janet, Louvilla, Madelyn, Evelyn and Paul here in afternoon to plan farewell party for Mayo's. LaVerne called David to go with charcoal on Thursday, 5 am. Clifton home late.
Comment: Mayo's, the minister apparently leaving. David taking a load of charcoal someplace....Guess who......1956 Senior Class...Ron Fancher is disqualified.....
Tuesday, 12 April, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Beautiful, sunny day, some clouds, fifty. Warmest of the spring. I ironed until my head started to ache. David took down snow fence and cleaned up behind the house.
Comment: We always put up a short stretch of wooden snow fence just west of the front lawn to prevent the snow from drifting over the walk way...sometimes it didn't work that well.....our dog Prince, the first winter after he fell off the tower and broke his left hip. You can see he's kinda gimpy.....
Monday, 11 April, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Mostly cloudy, cold, snow flurries, 30's. I washed, hung whites outside.
Comment: Another wash day comes around...this is very similar to how it looked on the Hill....
Sunday, 10 April, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, 42. Clifton, Doug, the girls and I went to church. I stayed to Sunday School. Wayne and Laura here for dinner. David and Mary came in pm. We took Doug to Kingston and stopped at Briggs's and met Mary's family.
Comment: Future in-laws meet....View from the fire tower on Hubbard Mountain
Saturday 9 April, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, snow flurries, 30's. I was about sick all day with headache. Gerald and Mary Ann left about 11 am. Gilbert here awhile in afternoon.
Comment: Another migraine, Mary Ann and I heading for Gloversville.....
Friday, 8 April, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, snow flurries, 30's. I went after Sue and John in am. Gerald picked Doug up in Albany, got back 1020 am. Roberta came after John about 5 pm. Clifton brought four pigs home.
Comment: Wow, have no memory of picking Doug up. Wonder how Dad got the pigs home??
Thursday, 7 April, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, snow flurries at night. Sue and I went to Grand Gorge in am shopping. Carol cleaned all through. Gerald and Mary Ann came about 1130 pm. Sue stayed at Roberta's.
Comment: Mary Ann & I must have left right after work at Ford in Buffalo.....
Wednesday, 6 April, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy 40, mostly flurries. I ironed nearly all day. Phyliss Clapper came home from the hospital. David drew mail for Wayne at night, Clifton worked overtime.
Comment: Marilyn, Dad and I, probably 1939 or 1940 or so up on Grandpa Barber's farm above Livingstonville...
Tuesday 5 April, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy and cold 30. Cold, windy and snow in am. I cleaned some more in kitchen. David laid off at Oneonta.
Comment: I can just picture the day....bleak.....but beautiful
Monday, 4 April, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cold and cloudy, 32. I washed in am and washed kitchen curtains. We took girls to donkey ball game at Grand Gorge at night and went to Wayne's...
Comment: Only saw one donkey ball game as a kid, that was enough.....
Sunday 3 April 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, cold, light snow flurries. Girls and I went to church and Sunday School and I went to church at night. Myrtie and Otis, Wayne and Laura here pm. David went to National Guard.
Comment: "Ote and Myrtie were our neighbors, up the road a quarter mile"..Take a Listen: https://hubbardfamilymusic.blogspot.com/2011/04/ote-and-myrtie-talking-blues-gerry.html
The Flat Creek Baptist Church Water Color by Nina Mateyunas.... the church that our family usually went to...although my Dad would sometimes like to go to the Chapel Church on Mace Road. I remember Christmas programs at both churches....
Saturday 2 April, 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy and cold, snow flurries, 30's. Clifton, the girls and I went to Mother's for dinner, had Frank Decker make out income tax and we went on to Montgomery Ward shopping. Got girls each a coat, Sue two dresses and Carol one. I went to business meeting at church at night. David went to National Guard.
Comment: A little spring shopping splurge...You could get your income tax done in 1966 for $5.....
Friday, 1 April 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, light snow melted as it came down, 30's. Did some cleaning and finished my blue dress.
Comment: Hubbard Hill this morning from Michael. Beautiful but bleak....
Thursday, 31 March 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, 30's. Ground white in am and roads not too good. Roberta, John and I went to Mother's for dinner. I had my eyes tested. Went to a prayer meeting at Bea's at night. Lyle's went with me.
Comment: Family and neighbor's interact....Sister Carol and Sister-In-Law Roberta, 1978....
Wednesday, 30 March 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, windy and light snow. 30's. Most of it melted as it came. Did the ironing, wrote to Marilyn and Doug, had a letter from Gerald and Mary Ann. LaVerne's up at night.
Comment: "Early morning sun rising over Leonard (Hubbard Hill) in November" from Nina Larkin Mateyunas, who has a place apparently up in Mackey, at least on the back side of the mountain somewhere. She has a blog entitled "A Painting A Day/Week/Month*"..take a look: http://ninapaints.blogspot.com/2013/11/leonard-hill-in-november-watercolor-on.html
Tuesday, 29 March 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, cold, windy 20 degrees. Wrote to Gerald and Mary Ann. My head was miserable all day. Gilbert here for supper and evening.
Comment: Source: Had to change her pen.....
Monday, 28 March 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cold and snow flurries, teens. I washed in am and made sweet rolls. Evelyn Bailey was over in the afternoon and I made a skirt for Joyce. Had letter and tract from Marilyn.
Comment: Mom always in demand as a seamstress....I've never heard about these falls before. They were covered up by the dam.....
Sunday, 27 March 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Mostly sunny but cold in teens all day. About 3 inches of snow. Clifton took girls and I to church then we went to Michelle's baptism and at Wayne's for dinner. Koerner's, DeWitt's, Usher's, Mary Briggs and LaVerne's were there too.
Comment: All about the second grand child...an older Michelle on the right with her sister, Christi and cousins Waynie, Dougie and Jason I believe...
Saturday, 26 March 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Some sun in am, cloudy and snow in pm, 30's. Clifton, Sue and I went to Grand Gorge and shopped and got four new tires on the car. Sue went to Jamesway with Wayne and Laura. Gilbert brought Carol home about 3 pm.
Comment: Seems like they bought a lot of tires....here is a price list from 1966:
Tires seemed expensive back then. 48 years later you can still buy a Goodyear tire at Walmart for about $60.....
Friday, 25 March 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy, cold, 20. Windy and light snow flurries. I presses David's uniform and nothing else special. Took girls to ball game at night and went over to Wayne's. Picked Sue up after. Carol went home with Debbie, Gilbert, John took them.
Comment: Another weekend rolls around....here is the proposed Dam site, never knew there was a Devasego Falls covered.....
Proposed Prattsville Dam site.
In the early 1920's the completed New York City water supply Gilboa Dam flooded the valley,
covering the town of Gilboa and the Devasego Falls
Thursday, 24 March 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Foggy and strong east wind, rain changing to sleet at night. Lavilla spent the day with me. Had prayer meeting at night. Had letter from Marilyn.
Comment: Hmmm, no indication as to why Lavilla spent the day..the mountains might have looked like this...
Wednesday, 23 March 1966, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Mostly cloudy, 20's. I finished ironing and did some cleaning, wrote to Marilyn. We went over to Wayne's at night. Mother called.
Comment: Still visiting the new baby Michelle.....Mom and her mother, Bessie.....
You're always young in your mind it is said, No matter the face in the mirror, That you see with surprise then say to yourself, "What is that old man doing here?"
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