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One of the followers of this post (and a BU “classmate”) offered a suggestion. I’ve resisted putting the diary on a flatbed scanner for fear of damaging the spine. However, just a few days ago, I download an APP onto my smartphone called “GENIUS SCAN”. Not being a “genius”, I was understandably hesitant but willing…
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Arr at Edmonton at 9:30 Cullerne and I had breakfast and went out to stake out a crossing in town, worked about 1 hour. Then we went down to the [–?–] Office and stayed till dinner time. after dinner we lazed around the offfice. I fixed Louis’s lamp for the blue print.
Hezekiah Robison was my 4th great grandfather, a well documented pedigree. He was probably born in either Virginia or in what is now West Virginia. I have never been able to locate anything other than references to “Virginia” as his place of birth on census records. His father was probably John or Jonathan, an immigrant…
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Clem Dickson, construction worker for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Sunday, February 9, 1913 made this entry somewhere near Edmonton, Alberta: This morning we all sleep in did not get up till 9 oc. We had breakfast and I came back and started my big washiing. It last till about 3 ocl P.M. Sunday evening…
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“NEMO”…it almost sounds wimpy compared to “THE BLIZZARD OF 2013!”… The good news is that Governors of Massachusetts and Connecticut were way ahead of this one. ALL highways were shut down at 4pm on Friday. The Mass Turnpike was all but deserted by 6pm compared to the same type of storm in 1978 where there…
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It’s Friday, February 8, 2013 and we’re getting up to 3 feet of snow. What did the weather bring 100 years ago on Saturday, February 8, 1913? As usual, Clem always gives us a brief weather report: We got up at 6:30 weather very nice a little cold till the sun came up and then…
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Carter Reid was born this morning just after midnight. He’s our latest grandchild and the son of Karen’s daughter, Caitlin. He was born at Holyoke Medical Center where our good friend Ginny manages the the birthing clinic. Caitlin is a phlebotomist at the same hospital and knows just about everybody there…she has no lack of…
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From “Lest We Forget”, Clem Dickson’s diary entry for February 7, 1913: Weather a little milder with sun shine all day. Steve and I took the Local from Otley to Leaman and walked from Leaman to Otley 15 miles. We got in about 4:30. We sat around the fire till supper. After supper I went…
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Busy day for genealogy. The latest class began today in Brimfield, MA. This si the second series I’ve conducted at the Hitchcock Free Academy. Small group but we will still cover all of the material. As a matter of fact, we might even be able to get a little farther as there are fewer lines…
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Too cold to work! Weather a little colder. We did not go out to work today. I cut wood in the morning. In the afternoon about 3:30 we moved to Ostley. Arrived about 4:30 NOTE: In the interest of true transcription, the “:” between “3” and “30” or “4” and “30” above were not in…
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