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| Hepatica - from the buttercup family, native to the eastern USA https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=98777 |
This is the 8th installment of my grandmother's diary from 1920. Her name was Gertrude Hitchings (1905 - 2001), and she was living on Elliott Street in Beverly, Massachusetts. The diary is a tiny 3", and every Monday I publish a new section, with transcriptions of the tiny handwriting. You can read the first installment HERE. I'll post more of this diary every week for Amanuensis Monday.
Report cards
today Warm
THURS. APR. 15, 1920
Got up at
6.45 went
to school up
to Helen’s
to dinner
took the baby
out all the
afternoon. Stayed
down at
Helen’s to supper. Mr.
Lowell down
too came home
on 9 o’clock
car went to bed 10.00
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FRIDAY 16
Cloudy
Got up at
7.00 went to
school home
1.15 Went
after
hepatica with Papa
Millie &
Marguerite and Gordon,
after supper
Eunice, Rozella,
Gordon and I
went to walk
Went to bed
at 9.30PM
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SATURDAY 17
Fair
Got up at
7.45 Had
breakfast
worked around
the house all day. Russell & Ethel
came
down. Mr. Lowell came up.
All gone
down town home alone
all evening
went to bed at 10.00
NOTE: Helen is Gertrude's eldest sister, who was married with several small children in 1920. Mr. Lowell is still a mystery to me, but my mother thinks he might have been a former boarder. Hepatica is a wildflower (I had to look that up!). Millie, Eunice and Gordon are Gertrude's siblings, and Marguerite and Rozella are friends. Russell is her eldest brother, married to Ethel just a few weeks ago.
SUN. APR.
18, 1920
Got up at
9.00 stayed at
home all morning.
Ma is
sick. Russell and Ethel down to
Helen’s. After dinner went to
walk with
Ella and with Gordon stayed home
all evening
went to bed at 8.15
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MONDAY 19
Fair
Got up at
7.15 had break-
fast. Home all morning. Ma
some better
got up. Helen and
Ellsworth
came up after dinner.
Went to walk with Ella, Russ & Ethel went home
Went to walk with Ella, Russ & Ethel went home
Went to bed
at 9.00PM
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TUESDAY 20
Warm
Got up at
6.30 went
to
school. Went up to Helen’s
to dinner
took the baby
out all
afternoon. Came
home
5.45. Went out a little
while after
supper played ball. Bed 9.
WED. APR.
21, 1920
Rain
Got up at
6.45 went
to
school. Rained hard
all day –
home at 1.15
stayed home
all the
afternoon
knitting. Home all
evening Ma
and Pa
went over
Butler’s bed at 9.30
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THURSDAY 22
Rain
Got up at
6.45 went
to school
came home
at 1.15.
Went out riding my
bike a
little while and went
over and got
some hepatica with
Gordon and
Jack. Went out after
supper
played games went to bed at 9
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FRIDAY 23
Rain
Got up at
6.45 went
to school
had a play
home
1.15 home all afternoon. Rain
and all
evening worked
on Gordon’s
sweater and finished it.
Pa over to
Russell’s went to bed 8.30
NOTE: Gertrude mentions knitting again, her favorite past time in her older years. The weather must be getting nicer because she mentions riding her bike, and picking more hepatica with her brother Gordon and friend Jack.
SAT. APR. 24, 1920
Fair
Got up at
7.00 had break
fast worked
around the
house all
morning
Mr. Lowell
came over 2.15
went home at
8.45 stayed
home all
evening and read
went to bed
at 10.15
set the
clocks ahead
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SUNDAY 25
Windy
Got up at
9.15 had break
fast stayed
home all
morning took
a bath. Went
to walk
after dinner and got some hepatica
After lunch
went down Helen’s
With Eunice,
Pa & Gordon bed at 10
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MONDAY 26
Fair
Got up at
7.00 had break
fast went to
N. B. helped Mr.
Lowell at
schoolhouse. Mabel & Hilda up came
Home
2.45. Went down Jone’s got my
Bike
fixed. Mr. Lowell over to supper.
??? a little
while went to bed at 10
NOTE: More mention of the mysterious Mr. Lowell but this time "at the schoolhouse". Was he a teacher? More hepatica, too.
Part One posted December 5, 2016
Part Two posted December 12, 2016
Part Three posted December 19, 2016
Part Four posted December 26, 2016
Part Five posted January 2, 2017
Part Six posted January 16, 2017
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/01/my-grandmothers-diary-part-6.html Part Seven posted January 23, 2017
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/01/my-grandmothers-diary-part-7.html
http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/01/my-grandmothers-diary-part-8-march-28.html
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "My Grandmother's Diary ~ Part 9 (April 15 - 26th)", Nutfield Genealogy, posted February 6, 2017, (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/02/my-grandmothers-diary-part-9-april-15.html: accessed [access date]).
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