Thursday, November 11, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, November 11, 1965
Veteran's Day.  Cloudy and cold.  Girls and I went to Cobleskill shopping and to Mother's for dinner.  Got my  (?) and two chains.  Girls and I went to prayer meeting at nite.  Laura here for supper.  Jim Dods spoke and showed slides at church.  Janet and two girls and family called in pm.  I cut the girl's hair.

Where I Served....

Comment:  Although I don't remember it, Mom must have been a decent hair stylist.  Seems the friends and neighbors often visited to obtain her services. On Veteran's day 1965, the Vietnam War was ramping up with about 200,000 troops in country and only a fraction of the impending 58,220 deaths and 303,604 wounded Americans occurring.
If we had known then what a debacle it was to become, I wonder what we as a country would have done....I'm not too confident that we would have done anything significantly different.....When I was in language school in Monterey, recruiters swept through the school looking for potential helicopter pilots.  I volunteered and passed all the tests but the physical.  My poor eyesight probably saved me from an early death in Vietnam.  The first clandestine pilots in the late fifties and early sixties did not live very long.....

Wednesday, November 10, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, November 10, 1965
Sunny, 42, No wind.  Wrote to Marilyn, sewed all afternoon, cleaned in am.  Two radios came in the mail.  Wayne took David to work and picked up ham and bacon in Jefferson.
Comment:  Wayne picked up the cured meat from the pig they had slaughtered in Jefferson.....when we butchered the pigs by ourselves, Dad would cut out the long tenderloins along the pig's backbone and we would breakfast on pork tenderloins, pancakes, eggs and locally made maple syrup...doesn't get a lot better than that....

From my Hubbard Hill Memories:

Wayne & Shawn, Catskill Game Farm?
From Austin Hubbard

In the fall we'd often kill a pig and hang it from a tripod rig
Then cut it up to take inside to treat
When Mom would cook the tenderloin with homemade pancakes we'd all join
In dining on a meal called "fit to eat".....

Tuesday, November 9, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, November 9, 1965 
Cloudy and cold.  I went to Oneonta with Roberta and John, home about 5 pm.  Madalyn went with me to Phyllis's to plan Christmas program at night.  Power failure in Northeast.  Lights flickered off and on and dimmed for about 2 hours from 5 to 7.  Parts of Pennsylvania, all of New England, parts of Canada and New York state were affected.

Comment:  Weird...Mary Ann and I were not affected by the blackout even thought we lived in Niagara Falls just minutes away from the plant that started it all:  The Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant.The plant was a prime attraction for friends and family who often visited us while we lived there and we went there many times.  A small surge from the plant tripped an improperly set relay on the heavily loaded transmission lines into Southern Ontario disabling it and that somehow tripped relays all through the eastern US shutting down various power plants in the region. Strangely enough, the two large cities closest to the initial event, Buffalo and Niagara Falls remained powered up because the relays servicing our area through Niagara Mohawk did not trip.....we also missed the 2003 power outage in the NE and Canada by living in Ohio at the time but were present in Italy in 2006 in the European outage.....btw, today in 1938 was also the date of "The Night Of Broken Glass" in Germany when 30,000 Jews were sent to concentration camps starting the Holocaust..https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-night-of-broken-glass

Monday, November 8, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, November 8, 1965
Nice in am, becoming cloudy at noon and rain at nite, 30's.
I washed and ironed and cleaned some.  Madalyn, Mrs. Mayo and I went to Louvilla's at nite on nominating committee.
Comment:  Chores and church stuff...never ending....

Sunday, November 7, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, November 7, 1965
Cloudy and warm around 50.  Girls and I went to church and Sunday School.  Church nearly full.  Wonderful sermon by Mr. Malles, "Follow Me".  Were all at LaVerne's for dinner and supper, rode over to Grand Gorge to see their kitchen in pm.  Wayne and Laura took Doug back.  Sue sang in church.
Comment:  Active Sunday with family......and
Jesus said
"Follow Me".....

Saturday, November 6, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, November 6, 1965
Nice day, 52.  Clifton and Wayne cut a little wood in the am.  Clifton, Sue and I went down to LaVerne's about 1230 and ate lunch with them  Sue stayed down and they were here for supper.  Clifton, the girls and I went to church at nite,
Comment:  We heated the house with wood and later a combination of wood and fuel oil so we usually cut wood every couple of weeks.  Our first chain saw was a two-man Mall that seemed to weigh a ton after handling it for awhile.  LaVerne or Dad usually handled the heavy motor end and I the blade end.  I remember it pretty much like this picture.  It was heavy, unbalanced and dangerous as hell to use in the woods with unsure footing.  In the third verse of my Hubbard Hill Memories I say:

In the winter is was  cold as hell and every week the boys as well as Dad
would go to cut some firewood.
With that old Farmall and Mall chainsaw we'd find a tree and make a fall
and cut it up as quickly as we could
For the winter wind and chill was bearing down
As we struggled in that cold and muddy ground
Then we loaded up a half a cord and shivered while the tractor roared
And took us tired half frozen homeward bound.

Take a listen if you've got the time, it is loooong.....

http://hubbardfamilymusic.blogspot.com/2011/06/hubbard-hill-memories-100th-posting-on.html

Friday, November 5, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, November 5, 1965
Nice day, about 50 and no wind.  I washed in am.  Wayne and I went to Middleburgh in pm shopping, home at 1 pm.  Doug called 4 pm and Wayne and Laura here for supper then picked him up at Kingston. The girls and I went to church at night.
Comment:  The weekend begins....Wayne and his first two girls, Christi and Michelle..guess I'm not sure who the baby is.....

Thursday, November 4, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, November 4, 1965
Lovely sunny day, 50 but very windy.  I cleaned, washed windows, cut and cleaned up iris's and lilies, etc in am.  Went to Missionary Meeting with Madalyn to Phyllis's in pm.  Wayne went to Albany for LaVerne.  Carol and I went to church at nite.  Called Mary Ann at nite, she was in hospital for tests.
Comment:  Right out of school,  Mary Ann got a a job as Assistant Professor at the Niagara County Community College and had to take a physical with the result that her red blood cell count was low and the doctor put her in the hospital for tests making us miss her parent's wedding anniversary party back in Gloversville...and she is still pissed off about it.  Seems she has an inherited genetic trait that helped people in the Mediterranean, Greeks and Italians,  better resist malaria.  Mediterranean Anemia or thalassemia (which by the way, means "sea in the blood") is relatively common and both her mother and sister share the trait.  She has minor thalassemia which doesn't have any health effect other than startling doctors who don't know about it......first snow of the winter on Hubbard Hill....from Michael Hubbard

Wednesday, November 3, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, November 3, 1965
Partly cloudy, warmer.  Finished ironing, did mending.  Wrote to Marilyn.  Clifton, the girls and I went to church at nite.
Comment:  Must be some sort of event at church with the guest preachers and all...Here is a picture of the Catskills near Lexington from Harvey Truesdell.  I remember lots of mornings like this in the late fall..crisp, clean air, snow on the mountains, and a very good, long life in front of me that I did not know about at the time....only lucky people get old.......

Tuesday, November 2, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, November 2, 1965
Election Day.  Cloudy in pm, 32, 1 inch of snow but some melted.  I ironed nearly all day and cleaned downstairs.  Wayne gone to Central Bridge.  Clifton home early. David voted for 1st time.  Clifton and I ate supper at Mrs.  Flugrems and he, the girls and I went to church at nite.
Comment:  This was the first election under the 1965 Voting Rights Act: From Wikipedia:

"The murder of voting-rights activists in Philadelphia, Mississippi, gained national attention, along with numerous other acts of violence and terrorism. Finally, the unprovoked attack on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965, by state troopers on peaceful marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, en route to the state capitol in Montgomery, persuaded the President and Congress to overcome Southern legislators' resistance 
The days and months leading up to Bloody Sunday were very chaotic and stressful as blacks were being targeted by whites as they went to register to vote. Most blacks were laughed at or harassed, but some were even beaten or killed. The black registered voters were also hit hard economically, in addition to physical abuse. Some were refused federal food aid, some refused credit at local banks and stores, and some were fired from their jobs." 

Woody Guthrie said, "Some rob you with a six-gun, some with a fountain pen"...with the recent Supreme Court decision, at least we evolved into voter disenfranchisement without overt violence and terrorism but the intended result is the same.....As I look back at the significant events that happened during my young adult life, I'm kinda amazed how mostly unaware I was of what was going on and the significance of it....recently married and just starting jobs out of college seemed to draw all our attention...."callow youth", I guess..

Monday, November 1, 1965, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, November 1, 1965
Cold and windy.  I washed and hung clothes upstairs and did some ironing.  Wrote to Gerald and Mary Ann.  Girls and I went to church at nite.  Rev. Malles here all week.
Comment:  And another weeks commences with Monday chores....the family in California on Valentines Day, 2003.  Wayne and my mother only had  a couple of years to live...they both died in 2005.....Mom died in June and Wayne died in December..better live life while you can......

Sunday, October 31, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, October 31, 1965
Partly cloudy, warm in am then very windy and becoming colder at night.  Girls and I went to Church and Sunday School.  Rev. Montanus there and (somebody), Clifton went to church at night with us.  David took Doug to Kingston at nite.  Laura and Wayne here in pm.  Nice lot out to church in am.
Comment:  A little mountain idiom going on here "Nice lot out to church"...Schoharie County sunset from Chad Blaksley.....I remember many evenings like this....

Saturday, October 30, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, October 30, 1965
Partly cloudy 50's.  David worked till noon.  Gerald, Mary Ann, Clifton and Wayne went to Central Bridge and brought Wayne's car to Cobleskill.  Clifton, the girls and I went to Mother's at night and came home by Stamford and Grand Gorge,  We stopped at LaVerne's for a moment.  Linda came after Doug and they went to Albany.
Comment:  Linda may be a new girl entering the picture...I don't remember her....so... Cobleskill was settled in 1752 and Portland, OR was incorporated in 1851 or about 100 years later...about the same amount of time that our mother would have lived if she had survived to 100...looking back at the last 100 years, it's absolutely amazing what has happened in that span of time..probably folks in 1851 looking back 100 years would also have been astounded....

Friday, October 29, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, October 29, 1965
Partly cloudy, cold and windy, 17 at 3 pm.  I washed in am.  Cleaned all through and helped Madalyn clean church.  Took Sue to camp at nite for party.  Carol went to dance at the school.  Laura here in evening and Gerald and Mary Ann came at 1030 pm. Wayne met Doug at Kingston 12 noon and LaVerne's came.  Doug and Wayne got new tires on David's car.  Had letter from Marilyn.
Comment:  Busy Friday.  Mary Ann and I probably drove in from Niagara Falls where we were living and working at the time.  It was about a 4.5 hour drive.......here is a picture of our family visiting our mother in California.  We were playing at the nursing home where she was staying...

Thursday, October 28, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, October 28, 1965
Chilly with light snow on the mountains.  Wayne took the car back to Parsons and saw Dr.  Dougall.  Laura and Carol went too.  I drove David's car to Central Bridge. (to pick him up)  We did shopping.  Girls and I went to prayer meeting.
Comment:  It could get pretty bleak in the early winter..

Wednesday, October 27, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, October 27, 1965
Cloud, windy and cold 35.  Wrote to Ella Mae, sent radio back and sent folder for church.  Ground sausage meat, did some ironing.  Wayne went to Cobleskill and  around with Earl and came home with a black 63 Ford just to try it.
Comment:  Earl was always helping out..this is probably what she used to grind the sausage......

Tuesday, October 26, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, October 26, 1965 
Nice day, 50.  I washed in am and finished covering back windows.  Took Wayne to Laura's at nite.  LaVerne, Roberta and John here in the evening.  John walks all over.
Comment:  And John is still at it....2009, Cambodia

Monday, October 25, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, October 25, 1965
Partly cloudy, cool, 42.  Wayne is so lame and sore and could only walk with a chair.  Franklin Clapper here in am about accident insurance.  I did ironing, wrote letters and did some cleaning.
Comment:  Only if you have been in a car wreck can you understand how just about every muscle in your body gets wrenched and will be sore for days.  I've been in several and the day after felt like I was beaten with a baseball bat....Wayne's depth perception was hampered by a scar over his left pupil that he got when a steel chip flew into his eye as he was hitting two hammers together and I'm wondering if that had part in the accident...here he is in happier times....

Sunday, October 24, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, October 24, 1965
Cool and partly cloudy.  Girls and I went to church and Sunday School and to Cairo and Windham Mountain in pm.  Wayne and Laura left here 4 pm for Central Bridge.  We had phone call from Bush road to come at once and they had had a wreck, we went to Cobleskill hospital and they came home with us after being examined.  Roberta came after keys at 1030 pm.
Comment:  So Wayne and Laura were apparently heading for Central Bridge to do something related to LaVerne's mail routes and they wrecked their car on the Bush Road on the way to Middleburgh...kinda weird, I do not remember this at all.....

Saturday, October 23, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, October 23
Partly cloudy, windy, 50's.  I called Ella Mae in am.  Girls, Linda K. and I went to Cobleskill shopping 230 pm.  Wayne and Laura here when we got home.  Girls and I went to South Jefferson to "least"?? rally in evening.
Comment:  Not sure what kind of rally it was....weather cooling down....view from back hay lot...

Friday, October 22, 1965, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, October 22, 1965
Cloudy, cooler 50's, rain at nite.  I sewed, girls and I went to Anita's shower at nite, 22 there. Mother called in pm and said Ella May was in hospital, she had fallen.
Comment:  Sure gets to be tough for older people....My grandmother Agnes, fell on icy steps in the winter of 1945, broke her hip and it led to her death in 1946, age 67....she was a beautiful young woman.

Thursday, October 21, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, October 21, 1965 
Beautiful warm day, 60's.  I washed and went to paint party with Madalyn at Ella's.  Took Carol to school at nite so she could go to college nite at Berne and picked her up at 11 pm.  Sue and I went to prayer meeting. Wrote to Marilyn
Comment:  I don't think the paint party was like this one...

Wednesday, October 20, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, October 20, 1965
Beautiful day, 70's.  I worked at the meat and finished all but grinding the sausage.  Wrote to Gerald and Mary Ann.  Made nut bread and cake.
Comment:  Mom's getting a lot out of that old butternut tree at the bottom of the hill..

Tuesday, October 19, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, October 19, 1965 
Beautiful Indian Summer day, 75.  I cut out dress for myself in am and went to Home Bureau with Madalyn to Mrs. Ely's in pm.  Girls and I went to Jefferson after pig at night, stopped at Roberta's a minute.  Both men worked late.
Comment: "An Indian summer is a heat wave that occurs in the autumn. It refers to a period of above-normal temperatures, accompanied by dry and hazy conditions, usually after there has been a killing frost. Depending on latitude and elevation, it can occur in the Northern Hemisphere between late September and mid November, though the term is used as widely as early September through January"....Wikipedia...
And Indian Summer in the Catskills sure was beautiful.  Indian summer days also coincided with small game hunting season and I remember many blissful days squirrel hunting in the Beech wood stand of Uncle Earl's adjacent to the property Doug now lives on....Indian Summer Day....from Shannon O'Hara....

Monday, October 18, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, October 18, 1965
Beautiful day, sunny, warm, 67 no wind.  Sue home, didn't feel good.  I washed, covered three windows with plastic, cracked nuts, picked up a few, all there was (from the butternut tree at the bottom of the hill). Had letter from Gerald and Mary Ann.  David started work for Carpenters at Gilboa.
Comment:  Butternuts were tough to crack.  I watched my Dad set them vertically on the bottom of an old flat iron and hit the tip with a hammer and it would split down the middle and the nut meats could be easily picked out.  A very smooth and yep, buttery taste..

Sunday, October 17, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, October 17, 1965 
Beautiful, sunny day, 60.  I felt dreadful from headache.  Girls and went to church and Sunday School.  We took pig to Jefferson 4 pm to be butchered.  Sue and I went to church at nite.
Comment:  She keeps on keeping on.....

Saturday, October 16, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, October 16, 1965
Partly cloudy, 48 hi.  I baked in am.  Girls and I went to Middleburgh in pm.  Sue went to spaghetti supper a Duanesburg with Young People.  Clifton had to work.  Laverne, Roberta, John, and Laura here at nite.  I had migraine headache in evening.
Comment:  and the "sick headache" strikes again.....

Friday, October 15, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, October 15, 1965
Warm, 60, cloudy and windy.  I washed but clothes didn't dry very good.  David went to Poughkeepsie looking for work.  Girls and I went to church at night and finished decorating for Anita's shower.
Comment:  I used to deliver milk from Prospect Dairies in Stamford to Poughkeepsie and Peekskill driving a reefer semi down along the Hudson River on Routes 9 and 9W.  Got $20 per day for about 10 hours of work and had to handle every damned ounce of that milk...but, that was pretty good money back then....here is my son David singing my song about those times....The air brake diaphragms I blew were on the same hill the limo recently ran down and killed twenty people....

Truck Driving Memories

Thursday, October 14, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, October 14, 1965 
From Susan.  I couldn't read it:  Beautiful day, 60 degrees. I canned carrots, made conserve (which was a thick jam which she made out of peaches, nuts (probably the butternuts), cherries – “Peach Conserve” DELICIOUS!).  Mrs. Mayo (Pastor’s wife and I each took a load (of people or kids) to Berne (a local Baptist Church Flat Creek associated with) to hear Jack Wagelyen (?) at night.
Comment:   Sure sounds good to me....

Wednesday, October 13, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, October 13, 1965
Beautiful, clear, sunny, 32-50 degrees.  Cleaned, wrote to Marilyn and went to Worcester with Madalyn (Blakesley) and to Missionary Meeting at Louise's.  Prayer meeting at nite.  Radio came.
Comment:  Mom still traveling....that Sears Silvertone
radio sat on the kitchen table in front of the south facing window for many years...

Tuesday, October 12, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, October 12, 1965
Cool and cloudy in am, warmer in pm.  Sue and I went to Missionary Meeting at Mrs.  Huber's on Colen (?) Hill.  I went to prayer meeting at night.  Had business meeting at night to discuss placing mission money.  Scantoe's here at night.
Comment:   Always a lot of church stuff going on....

Monday, October 11, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, October 11, 1965
Partly cloudy, rain at nite, no school, I washed, made up rest of grapes with juice and jelly.
Comment:  Always beautiful in the Catskills....

Sunday, October 10, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, October 10, 1965 
Partly cloudy with showers.  Girls and I went to church and Sunday school. then we went to Mother's for dinner.  Wayne and Laura went too.  Sue, Carol, and I went to church at nite.  Winnie and Rudy were here before we got home.
Comment:  We always had drop-in guests on Sunday.  Here are Rudy and Winnie  (my Dad's sister) when they got married....I think...

Saturday, October 9, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, October 9, 1965
Cloudy, 50.  Girls and I went to Middleburgh in am shopping and picked grapes. Clifton didn't work.  David took Wayne's car to have work done on it.  I made grape juice in pm.  We went down to LaVerne's a few minutes in the afternoon.
Comment:  Mom keeps harvesting stuff.....

Friday, October 8, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, October 8, 1965
Cloudy intervals, warmer about 60.  Louise stopped about 11 am and had lunch with me.  David had transmission fixed in his car.  I worked on windows and washed them all in pm after I washed in am.  Sent for radio to Sears.  LaVerne, Roberta and John here in evening.  Girls and I weren't here, had gone to Carlisle with Joyce and Evelyn (Bailey) to see God's Country.
Comment:  Mom wants the radio to listen to the Christian radio shows, The Sword Of The Lord and Jack Wertzen, both shows we grew up with....

Thursday, October 7, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, October 7, 1965
Partly cloudy 50.  I puttied and painted around back windows.  Anita and Donna Swehle here in am and I cut their hair.  Sue and I went to prayer meeting at nite.  Heavy rain at nite.
Comment:  Still busy with the house, church and friends.....the outhouse is the little square attachment at the right of the picture...

The Back Of The House

Wednesday, October 6, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, October 6, 1965
Mostly fair and warmer, 42.  I washed, finished sweet dill pickles and canned 4 quarts of tomatoes.  Sent application to vote to Doug. I fixed spinner washer.  Alice Wyckoff called about K. Carson's Masonic funeral at nite.
Comment:   Mom is never idle.....Dad was a long time Mason so I'm sure he is participating in the funeral

Tuesday, October 5, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, October 5, 1965
Cloudy, cold and windy, 32.  We dug out carrots and potatoes, made dress for Carol. Clifton home late.
Comment:  Freezing temps but the veggies get dug....Dad home late means he was out drinking

Monday October 4, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday October 4, 1965
Cold, 30 degrees, light snow flurries and very windy all day.  Pope Paul is at the UN.  No school, teacher's conference.   Girls and I went to Middleburgh in am.  I canned 21 quarts of tomatoes.  Sue went to birthday party for Becky.  Kenneth Carson died.
Comment:  Winter approaches....Peace didn't stand a chance....

Sunday, October 3, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, October 3, 1965
Partly sunny, cool.  Girls and I went to church and Sunday school and Wayne and Laura went to Haskin reunion at Potter's Hollow.  Kids sang.  No church at night.  Mr. Mayo sick.  Girls went with Wayne and Laura to take Doug back.
Comment:  We were related to the Haskins through my father's mother who was Agnes Haskin, a much beloved member of the Flat Creek community...here she is with her mother, Sara "Tay" and sister Phebe....she died when I was about 8 years old.  I was taken to her deathbed so we could say goodbye.  I vividly remember she was taking massive, heaving breaths that shook the bed as her heart failed and she looked at me with loving, anguished eyes....she died just a little bit later.....she used to buy me new shoes whenever the ones I had became bedraggled....I remember several pairs....

Saturday, October 2, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, October 2, 1965
Lovely, clear, sunny day, 52. I washed in am, made navy skirt for Sue.  Doug went with Wayne on mail route in am and they and Laura here 4 pm for supper.  Sue went on route with Wayne and Laura.  Wayne got groceries for me at Grand Union in Middleburgh.  David had to go to National Guard.
Comment:  David as a Guardsman....

Friday, October 1, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, October 1, 1965
Cloud, cool and very rainy and windy all nights.  I kept John all day.  LaVerne, Roberta and Walt and Alice Wyckoff went with them.  (She does not say where they went).  Carol took John home at 8 pm.  Sue went to Sunday School picnic.  David went to Kingston after Doug.

Comment:  And another rainy weekend rolls around....

Wednesday, September 29, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, September 29, 1965
Cloudy, 50's.  I canned more tomatoes, baked rolls and did some ironing and some cleaning. Clifton and David laid off at Oneonta.
Comment:  The old kitchen where it all happened.  She used to do it with a wood stove.....

Tuesday September 28, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday September 28, 1965
Lovely day, 50, sunny and clear becoming cloudy toward night.  Sue still home with cold.  I made 20 quarts of tomato juice and canned 28 quarts of tomatoes.  Made Carol a skirt at night.
Comment:  Much about tomatoes...

Monday, September 27, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, September 27, 1965
Cloudy in am and becoming fair and clear in pm, 50 high.  I washed, Sue was home about sick with a cold.  She and I went to Barber's and picked 4 bushels of tomatoes in pm.
Comment:  They sure are into the fall harvest......

Sunday, September 26, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, September 26, 1965
Sunny, 60.  Mary Ann went to church with the girls and me.  Sue and I stayed to Sunday School.  LaVerne, Roberta, John, Laura, Mary and Linda Barlow were here for dinner.  Earl here in pm.  Gerald and Mary Ann left about 3 pm.  Clifton went to church at nite and Sue to Young People's.  Wayne, Laura and Carol stayed home.
Comment:  Lots of visitors...Eldest son David, about 1972 or so in front of the wood house with Kid

Saturday, September 25, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, September 25, 1965
Cooler and fair.  I baked, girls cleaned house.  Doug, David and Clifton went to Albany 11 am and got a wall heater for living room.  David ordered Hi Fi.  Girls and I went to church at nite.  Gerald and Mary Ann came about 9 pm.  Wrote to Marilyn.
Comment:  The renovations they were putting in 58 years ago are being re-done now by Jeffery...wonder what will happening 58 years from now in 2071...bet they don't find any cannon balls.....

Friday, September 24, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, September 24, 1965 
Rainy and much cooler.  Doug called 7 am to meet him in Kingston at 1030 am. Louvilla went with me, home at noon.  Girls and I went to church at nite.  Dr. Lowe was there.  Heavy rains for 3 pm to about 730 pm, thunder showers.
Comment:  Weekend pass for Doug....my birthday today, here I am 85 years ago, the last of the family born outside a hospital.....this may be the house where I was born in Carlisle, NY, where my grandmother Bessie and husband Norm were working on a farm......

Thursday, September 23, 1965 The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, September 23, 1965
Beautiful day, sunny, still hot and humid 78, rain at night and cooler.  I washed and picked cuks and shell beans.  Sue and I went to prayer meeting at nite.
Comment:  Garden harvest in full swing...