tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589678736004297790.post5496675003041613372..comments2023-10-27T15:05:50.775-04:00Comments on ArchivesInfo: More Finds at the Local Antique Shop: Joe Louis, Shirley Temple, and Shorthandarchivesinfohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11173735671172866919noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589678736004297790.post-53000087174972160612013-01-26T19:48:21.466-05:002013-01-26T19:48:21.466-05:00Melissa, after posting the comment above, I was ca...Melissa, after posting the comment above, I was called away from my temperate "sense of place" at home to attend to an aunt who was undergoing a health emergency. While sharing the same winter temps you were just bemoaning in your post today, by chance I stumbled upon a little volume at my aunt's house that made me think, again, of you.<br /><br />Evidently, as a girl of ten, my aunt had kept a diary of those same years that your Eileen's diary covers. When I had first read your post, where at the end you mention the curious design of the five-year diary, the detail had stuck in my mind.<br /><br />I was amazed to see this very design for the diary my aunt was keeping. It was printed that way, as you said about Eileen's diary. I guess this might have been a fairly common version--I can see the fun in being able to review one's life at a glance (well, at least one third of these girls' life span, once the diary was completed!).Jacqi Stevenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03471698670217119444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589678736004297790.post-62295134481556637812013-01-13T17:47:13.247-05:002013-01-13T17:47:13.247-05:00The diary was actually printed that way Jacqi, wit...The diary was actually printed that way Jacqi, with one page for five years. I wonder how common that was!<br /><br />Please share some of the less personal parts of you mother's diary if you are open to that. I'd love to hear some! Anything that sheds light on national events?Melissahttp://archivesinfo.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3589678736004297790.post-42005323246879149072013-01-13T17:12:36.925-05:002013-01-13T17:12:36.925-05:00Melissa, you are an inspiration with this transcri...Melissa, you are an inspiration with this transcription process! I've been transcribing my own mother's journals and had had to set the project to the side; you remind me there is yet more for me to discover there. Further, you inspire me to search through antique shops here to find an orphan diary just waiting to be discovered!<br /><br />What a curious device the young lady included in her diary. Quite inventive, actually--giving a panoramic sweep over that stage in her life. Not a bad idea, in fact! Gives a more three-dimensional view to what otherwise seems like a rather flat, two-dimensional timeline of day-in, day-out repetition of activities.Jacqi Stevenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03471698670217119444noreply@blogger.com