1915

"Griff" Griffith and son Bill flew into Boston from California for a week's schedule of stops in New England. Dale Barker was unable to meet them in Boston as planned. Hope the foliage was at its very best for their sakes.

Mildred Pitman writes that Joe is in a local nursing home. He is comfortable and does not seem unhappy. She is able to visit him daily.

Ralph Brown is back home at Riding Ridge Farm after a three weeks' stay in the hospital. They were fortunate this summer to have their family visit with them a grandson and granddaughter spent six weeks.

George Ingalls keeps busy writing notes on the history of the Ingallses who arrived in Salem in 1628. He is also working on his mother's side of the family the Howes who arrived in Marlborough in 1637. He believes it was a son of the first Howe who built what Longfellow wrote about in Tales of a Wayside Inn.

Cloughy and Marion Clough took a tour of North Conway and Heritage, N.H., sponsored by the senior citizens of Lebanon. They took a trip on the Kancamagus Trail, saw the first snowfall on Mount Washington, and rode the scenic railway. As Cloughy put it, "Conway is the busiest town in the mountains, with tourists from all over the world." The icing on the cake, was Heritage House, which they both enjoyed.

Chink and June Chamberlain invited me to Plymouth early in October it was fun and I enjoyed it immensely. June picked me up in Boston on Friday night and we had delicious lobsters for dinner. Saturday we drove down to the Cape and had lunch at a fine seafood restaurant in Hyannis and dinner that night at the Yacht Club, where I met a lot of nice friends of June and Chink's. Sunday we made a tour of Plymouth saw the Rock and the Ocean Spray exhibit (very interesting, those bogs) and were home for dinner. Then June drove me into Boston for the bus back to New York. Plymouth is a very pretty and delightful town. It was a very relaxing and comfortable weekend and I am deeply grateful to Chink and June for their very warm hospitality.

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