(1974 June 9)
Riding seems so healthy and wholesome and I am glad you three [Skip, Sherry, & Lawrence] enjoy it. Bet your old bones ached the first time! I am glad Lawrence is doing things with you.
September 29, 2010
September 28, 2010
Small-town fun
(1974 Good Friday)
I was late in buying Easter cards to send to the kids this year. Only to Ben, Lawrence, Tenaya. I thot I could get them at the Empire [drug store] and address them there and drop in [mail] box at corner, so brot stamps along. But no cards. So I went to Schultz [dime store], Keegan's [drug store], and found some at Noeer's [office supplies]. I addressed Lawrence's there and asked the clerk if there was any box closer than Empire (I was so tired by then - to go back) and when she said no, a woman customer spoke up and said she would mail it; she was going right there. Looking at the address, she said, "Is this for the one they call Skip?" I said his son, and she said, "I am Mrs. Lawrence, and I think my daughter Jo Ann knew him." (Fund in a small town.)
I was late in buying Easter cards to send to the kids this year. Only to Ben, Lawrence, Tenaya. I thot I could get them at the Empire [drug store] and address them there and drop in [mail] box at corner, so brot stamps along. But no cards. So I went to Schultz [dime store], Keegan's [drug store], and found some at Noeer's [office supplies]. I addressed Lawrence's there and asked the clerk if there was any box closer than Empire (I was so tired by then - to go back) and when she said no, a woman customer spoke up and said she would mail it; she was going right there. Looking at the address, she said, "Is this for the one they call Skip?" I said his son, and she said, "I am Mrs. Lawrence, and I think my daughter Jo Ann knew him." (Fund in a small town.)
September 27, 2010
Hobnobbing
(1974 Good Friday)
Wednesday is the Auxiliary State Historical Tea [in Madison] and I am planning on going. I have a special invitation to attend the Board meeting [as a trustee] and have a sandwich with the members at noon. It will be interesting meeting those I have been writing to. Plan to come back on evening bus ... to keep it simple. Wish I had some new clothes - about time.
Wednesday is the Auxiliary State Historical Tea [in Madison] and I am planning on going. I have a special invitation to attend the Board meeting [as a trustee] and have a sandwich with the members at noon. It will be interesting meeting those I have been writing to. Plan to come back on evening bus ... to keep it simple. Wish I had some new clothes - about time.
September 26, 2010
A lively lad
(1974 October 20)
Lawrence and I got along well this trip - not hard to do when the time is short. But one cannot expect a lively lad [age 8] to draw, read, and watch TV all the time. Then what? A walk to town for more comics is all that presents itself. Last trip he got to the front of the Library and turned back [a block short of the business district]. The Saturday p.m. movies are still on, but often you are back by then to hike and entertain him. I am not in with little boys as I once was.
Lawrence and I got along well this trip - not hard to do when the time is short. But one cannot expect a lively lad [age 8] to draw, read, and watch TV all the time. Then what? A walk to town for more comics is all that presents itself. Last trip he got to the front of the Library and turned back [a block short of the business district]. The Saturday p.m. movies are still on, but often you are back by then to hike and entertain him. I am not in with little boys as I once was.
September 25, 2010
Longhair alert
(1974 December 2)
Unasked for advice: ... (2) I hope you will cut your hair so that you present a very neat appearance. When you go to ... do business, [at] banks where older and neater people are, you will find they would rather do business with a person who does not present a wild (collegiate) appearance. "I hope you realize I am saying this for your own good." (Calm down, now.)
Unasked for advice: ... (2) I hope you will cut your hair so that you present a very neat appearance. When you go to ... do business, [at] banks where older and neater people are, you will find they would rather do business with a person who does not present a wild (collegiate) appearance. "I hope you realize I am saying this for your own good." (Calm down, now.)
September 24, 2010
Book alert
(1974 December 2)
Unasked for advice: (1) Decide to part with some of your books. They are more of a liability to you than an asset. It seems to me you could sell at your bookshop or give to library those you haven't looked at in years and perhaps never will. We hear of people who so turn their homes into museums collecting antiques that they are impeded in living. Can be true with books. Or your could bring 50-100 of them with you every time you come [to Richland Center] and give them to library here.
Unasked for advice: (1) Decide to part with some of your books. They are more of a liability to you than an asset. It seems to me you could sell at your bookshop or give to library those you haven't looked at in years and perhaps never will. We hear of people who so turn their homes into museums collecting antiques that they are impeded in living. Can be true with books. Or your could bring 50-100 of them with you every time you come [to Richland Center] and give them to library here.
September 23, 2010
Da capo
(1974 November 14)
Well, I have gone on enough about this [saving, not spending]. I am worried about the state of our country. Things are in recession. More unemployment, rises in prices! Where is it all going to end? Our congressmen are off to Europe on lovely trips. People all over the world are strving. Births are up. I hope none of us are ever hungry.
Well, I have gone on enough about this [saving, not spending]. I am worried about the state of our country. Things are in recession. More unemployment, rises in prices! Where is it all going to end? Our congressmen are off to Europe on lovely trips. People all over the world are strving. Births are up. I hope none of us are ever hungry.
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