April 14, 1936 - July 2, 1938
Handmade volume with cardboard covers, unlined paper
9 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches
“Resigned to my fate,” I determined to get the most out of the trip up the river. At Rochester, I got coffee & pie & a sandwich at a lunch-room near the station.
The country between Rochester & Pittsburg (sic) full of interest.
Evening - to see a movie, horribly titled ”The Life and Loves of Beethoven”- it was not as bad as it sounded, and really had moments when you could feel the greatness of Beethoven. However it stressed too much the love angle; and I have never read anywhere of a sentimental attachment between Theresa Von Braming & Beethoven.
March 21, 1938 (Monday)
A fine mild day.
Evening- Bertha to Pittsburg. Toads(?), or Hylas could be heard piping.
March 22, 1938-
The first hepatica open - as always, the pink one. The earliest I have before recorded this is Apr. 6 I believe.
Arthur & I spent the day cleaning up the yard. It was almost too warm.
Evening - grass fires everywhere - with the children we visited some. The last on the banks of the Lossen Rd near the New York Central yards. Hylas in a pond near the road sent up with a terrific din. The Northern lights low in the north in a vague glowing arch.
March 23, 1938-
Warm all night and raining. (72° at midnight) In the morning we discovered that the hepaticas had developed almost miraculously. The pink plant was full of wide open bloom, and the others were full of bloom. It seemed almost unbelievable.