Monday, April 21, 2008

Thursday, April 21, 1927

Thursday, April 21, 1927
Rain, cold

Spent most of the AM building a fire and talking on phone. Mrs. Collins telling me about a nice big house she thinks we could trade for. My Sunday School class had a tea that I intended to attend, but couldn’t get any one to stay with the babies and too bad to take them out.
(I can't imagine having to build a fire in the furnace whenever you wanted heat from it.)

4 comments:

  1. Hi Carol,
    Been reading for awhile but have not commented before.
    I enjoy my daily trips to 1927! Thank you for posting!
    Cheers,
    Tuli

    PS - I hate ironing and am awed that Ruth did so much of it, so often!

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  2. this blog is adorable, and fascinating! did she write her diary in the 1930's as well? it would be engrossing to read a primary source pertaining to the great depression. Ruth Campbell.. the name seems familiar... was she famous, renown?

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  3. I can't imagine it either. And it must have been cold as she didn't want to take the kids out.

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  4. All, thank you for comments. Alec, my grandmother was not famous, by any means, but was a good person who raised six children under sometimes trying conditions. Sadly, I only have diaries through the end of 1927. There may be some diaries from the 1930's, but I don't have them. We don't know where those diaries are, or even if they still exist.

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