January 10th

January 10, 1911


Alice and Frank went for a moonlit walk in the evening. I enjoyed sleeping late this morning after a long travel day yesterday. I made a healthy apple salad for lunch. It looks like snow will be moving in on Wednesday. Plans to retrieve work in New York may need to shift. It was good to hear that my work in the Post Cards from the Edge show in the city got viewed. Fun to have an art work accepted to a benefit art exhibit with a social cause. All proceeds will benefit Aids research.

January 9th

January 9, 1911


Frank’s dad left today. He showed his foreign lantern slides to a men’s club at the Methodist Church that evening.
I was flying back home from Austin. Fortunately, I missed the storm in Atlanta. Had to shovel my car out of the airport parking lot late that evening. It was a wonderful visit. The city of Austin and the people are great.

January 8th

January 8, 1911


Frank, his wife Alice and his daughter Ester enjoyed an organ recital on this warm day in Amherst. I went to the farmer’s market in Austin with my friend Abbie where we enjoyed sweater weather. Later two other friends joined us as we schemed up salad recipes using apples. We were very proud of our creative concoctions. It was such fun to conspire and laugh. Back home a blizzard hit Amherst.

January 7th

January 7, 1911


Frank worked with his colleague Fred Sears on their Bay State Fruit Farm today. His dad was visiting to lend his advice. Today that land is part of Atkins and is now Applewood. I flew off to Austin to meet my friend Abbie. She took me on a tour of their wonderful hike and bike trail.

January 6th

January 6, 1911


Frank was working on his Winnepeg plans in the morning. Later he took Alice for a drive. I headed up to King Arthur Flour to do some whole grain baking. Along the way I stopped to admire the Quechee Gorge. As a girl I spent summers up in this neck of the woods. We had an old 18th century farm my dad restored on 90 acres of land on Lake Crystal in Lockehaven, New Hampshire. It was such fun following deer tracks and hunting for wild strawberries.

January 5th

January 5, 1911


Frank was showing his lantern slides in the evening. Alice brought him coffee and doughnuts he so appreciated. His dad arrived for a visit as well. They talked about his apple and peach orchard venture, the Bay Road Fruit Company.

Today I was inspired to make an ice cream using ginger entitled “silk road.”

January 1st

FAW Journal entry

A blizzard in the midwest


Frank traveled to the midwest during a blizzard today.

We had an unusually warm day to start off the new year here in Amherst. Returning home after singing Auld Lang Syne with Arthur Kinney and company, I began making a feijoada today, which my Brazilian friend Iara Velasques taught me to make when we were at graduate school together years ago. Later Arnold Friedmann called to wish me a Happy New Year.