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 taken 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....Pakistan Airlines Ad

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.....

Sunday, 29 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 29 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, 75, showers in early morning.  Went on fast time.  Went to church and Sunday School.  Marilyn, Jim and children and Carol and Sue went to Winnie's for dinner.
Comment:  Rudy and Winnie lived in New Baltimore at the time with the Hudson River as their back yard....Rudy and Winnie, young adults....beautiful couple...

Saturday, 28 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 28 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, windy, 82 degrees.  I washed.  David and Wayne took Gerald to work and got brakes fixed on the Plymouth.  Marilyn, Jim and four girls, (Carol, Sue, Marna, Patty) went to Grand Gorge in pm and stayed at LaVerne's for supper.  Clifton was home late.  Had freezer fixed.  Barry and Glenn stopped in am.  I made Sue a skirt.
Comment:  For the hill a hot day....here are Barry and Glenn as toddlers at Earl's pond with Ina Belle, Eva & Freda Proper, Winnie and Barry and Glenn probably about 1939 or 40.....

Monday, 30 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 30 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, rainy, 60.  I washed.  Marilyn, Jim and children went to Middleburgh.  Lillian and Earl stopped in pm.  We did ironing,  Jim went to work in afternoon.
Comment:  Jim is driving for HB Moore hauling clinker from Howe Caves to the Hudson cement plants where it will be made into cement.....here is Jim as a toddler with his sister....

Friday, 27 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 27 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, 80 degrees, windy.  David and Wayne home, we cleaned the woodhouse. They cleaned and cut brush up by the swing.  Begin to notice the trees turning green.  Ethridge got 50 bales.  I reset tomato plants.
Comment:  Sound like a nice day, no mention that it is Dad's 54th birthday.  Younger than both my sons now.  B April 27, 1908, Died January 4, 1984, age 75 years, 8 months and 8 days...eerie...11 years younger than I am now......here he is trying to fix the Hubbard Hill house...I and the rest of the boys used to sleep in that attic where the windows are and the rain and snow blew in...probably early fifties...below is my tribute to him.

Gerry Hubbard · Dad A Confession

Thursday, 26 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 26 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny, windy, 78.  I did a big wash.  Marilyn cleaned all through.  Mother and Norm here for dinner.  Ethridge got 25 bales.
Comment:  Wow, 43 degree temp rise...I'll bet it seemed good...Mother and Norm, Richmondville, not sure when...Norm was a "hired man" for a long time working for wages and found on a large farm in Carlisle Township.  I was born in that house btw...the last child not to be born in a hospital....

Wednesday, April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 25 April 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Still windy, 35 degrees, warmer at night.  We went to prayer meeting at Leonard's. Lyle and Madelyne went with us.  Roberta took Marilyn and me to Middleburgh in afternoon for groceries.  Clifton was home early.  Barbara and Kathy flew to California.
Comment:  Don't know who Barbara and Kathy are....wonder why Roberta took them for groceries, car broke down??  The Dandy..Clarence Barber, my Grandfather on mother's side....nice car for the times....I just realized he has a cigarette in his mouth....

Tuesday 24 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday 24 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cold, windy, 35 degrees.  We ironed most of the day.  Ella and Merel were here in the afternoon.  Marilyn, Carol, Sue and Jim went to Merel's at night to see Merel Jr. and Kay.
Comment:  Marilyn catching up with lots of family.  Here is Betty and Merel Jr. probably about 1935.....

Monday, 23 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 23 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, windy, 50 at 5 am, about 38 in pm.  Kids were still home.  Clifton, Gerald, and Jim all went to work.  I washed and hung only a few clothes on the line as it was so windy.  Barbara Edwards called about the point system at church.

Comment:  Not sure what the "point system" is all about.  The family in a corn field:  From left, Norm, Ella Mae, Mom, Bessie in back, Tenblad girl in back, Emma Tenblad in front, Judith and Billy....Norm holding a cigarette...He smoked all his life, I remember him in Richmondville in his easy chair smoking..very normal for those times....

Sunday, 22 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 22 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Easter, beautiful day, sunny, 75.   Marilyn and I went to sunrise services at 6 am and we all went to church at 1030.  LaVerne and Roberta were here for dinner.  We all went for a ride in pm where I used to live and to Crystal Lake.  The lakes over there were still covered with ice.  Gerald went to Cobleskill.
Comment:  Here is Mom, in front with her Grandmother back left and Mother back center, probably at Crystal Lake...do not know who is back right.....probably mid 1920's...

Saturday, 21 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 21 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day, 50's.  I washed, Clifton had to work and Gerald worked too.  Marilyn, Carol, Sue and I went to Middleburgh in pm.  Ethridge got 50 bales of hay.  David and Wayne went with Ronnie & Robert (Schermerhorn) to Kingston and out at night.  Marilyn and Jim went to Cobleskill to see "King Of Kings".
Comment:  Here is the preview of the movie...a blue-eyed Jesus....

Friday, 20 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 20 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, warm, 50, snow about gone.  Gerald was home.  David, Wayne and Gerald went to Cobleskill after Gerald's clothes and got a plug for the chainsaw in Middleburgh.  The pump didn't run so David took the motor off the Maytag and used it.  We got our new ironing board.  I did a big wash, the girls cleaned up the house. Clifton and Jim were both working.
Comment:  Busy day...Mom on her Grandmother's porch in Middleburgh maybe 1920 or so....

Thursday, 19 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Thursday, 19 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, chilly, in the thirties.  Marilyn cut my hair and gave me a permanent.  Clifton started work in Windham on roller for Green Island Construction Co. HB called Jim back to work.
Comment:  Getting back to work....

Betcha Jim is driving without a NY license and HB is risking it because either some driver didn't show up or he had to add another truck somewhere....Mom and her mother Bessie, dressed to the nines..Mom hated her hair like that...

Wednesday, 18 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 18 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy, cold.  We ironed and I did mending.  Clifton, Jim, David and Wayne went to Albany to get Jim's license but could not get them.  Carol and I painted the table at church.  The three girls and I went to prayer meeting at Lyle's.  Ground still covered with snow.
Comment:  Fickle weather as usual...Mom and her Dad, Clarence with a double team of horses....probably about 1920.........

Tuesday 17 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday 17 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Sunny but cold.  Wayne and I went to Schoharie with Clifton.  We went to Mother's for dinner.  Ethridge got 50 bales of hay.
Comment:  Haying sure wasn't like this in my day.....

Monday, 16 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Monday, 16 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cold, windy, cloudy, 32 high.  Clifton and Wayne went to Schoharie in am, home at noon.  Marilyn, Jim and David went to Schoharie in pm after Jim's permit.  I washed and cleaned up the house.  Snow going very slow.  HB called and and said Jim was laid off until he got his license.  Moved washer into wood house.  Had a note from Dougie.  Charles Lee was killed at Potter's Hollow, Carol Cleveland was hurt bad.
Comment:  The Lee's and Clevelands lived in a clutch of cabins and one main house on the Bull Hill Road just past the Young farm.  They were one of the poorest families in the area...I don't seem to remember either of the them....how it was in 1962...

Sunday, 15 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Sunday, 15 April 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Partly cloudy and cold, 30's.  The three girls, Mrs. Childrens and I went to church and Sunday School.  Clifton and I and the girls went with LaVerne and Roberta to Rudy's in pm.  Eleanor Oman and family were here to see Marilyn in the pm.  Gerald worked Sunday am.
Comment:  Busy Sunday as usual...here is where they visited Rudy's: New Baltimore, NY  Winnie in 1930...

Saturday, 14 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Saturday, 14 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Miserable day, cloudy, windy, snow squalls, 32 degrees.  Gerald worked.  David, Wayne and Clifton cut wood in am.  The boys went to Prattsville for haircuts in afternoon.  Did a big wash and had to hang it upstairs.
Comment:  I think I hauled milk for Joe Gallo and Prospect Dairies..

Friday, 13 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Friday, 13 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy and snow about one inch, 32.  Clifton came home from Schoharie at noon, went to Grand Gorge to pay Paul Becker.  Gerald came home.  Jim went to work at one pm.  Marilyn and I ironed.  Patty had a bad cold and an earache.  David and Wayne went to Roxbury to see Pete Williams.  Wrote to Dougie.
Comment:  Dad is going to pay for tires at Paul Becker's tire store....not sure who Pete Williams was, anybody know?  The cover of Esquire in 1962.....Kennedy's all the rage......

Tuesday 12 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday 12 April 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Cloudy 40.  It started to snow about 3 pm.  Marilyn, Jim, and the kids went to Mother's for dinner.  Clifton went to court.  I went to Missionary Meeting at church, election of officers. H.B. Moore called for Jim to come to work at 5 pm.  He went.  Marilyn still didn't feel good and  Patty sick too.
Comment:  H.B. Moore was good employment for the family.  LaVerne, I, now Jim, and later David all drove truck for him.  He had concrete batch trucks, he hauled salt for the winter roads, clinker for the cement plants.  He must have had a hundred trucks of various makes and years.  I drove a brand new batch truck on Andrews Air Force Base, and 12 year old junkers batching on I 84 going north out of Albany.  In '62, both Jim and I hauled clinker from Cobleskill to,  I think, The Hudson Valley Cement Factory....in 1957 Ford Cabovers....and here one is....

Wednesday, 11 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Wednesday, 11 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day.  We washed.  Clifton was home from Schoharie at noon.  I went to Prattsville with him in afternoon.  Otis and Myrtie came down.  Floyd and Anna (Blakesley) were here for supper.  Marilyn, Carol, Sue and I went to prayer meeting at Louvilla's.  Marilyn was leader, she had bad cold.
Comment:  It's remarkable how social the family was at that time...always going somewhere, lot's of callers and drop-in supper and dinner guests...very connected to the community, friends and family.... Floyd and Anna were Rudy Blakesley's parents and Aunt Winnie's in-laws......Uncle Rudy & Aunt Winnie on the steps of Grandpa Elmer's farm....

Tuesday, 10 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries

Tuesday, 10 April, 1962, The Frances Hubbard Diaries
Nice day, windy.  I went to court with Clifton, did shopping at Cobleskill, ate dinner there.
Comment: Relaxed

day for Mom....no washing, ironing or cleaning "all through"...