Friday, April 26, 2013

75 Years Ago This Week - April 26, 1938




75 Years Ago This Week - April 26, 1938



75 Years Ago This Week began March 1, 1938 - my mother and father were preparing to get married later in the month.

Over in The KINNICK Project blog, we had another week of daily entries from Mom's - that is Eileen Kinnick's - diary.

Some highlights:

We started this week 'planting spuds' …

Eileen mentioned listing to evening radio shows…

Both the Des Moines Register and Coon Rapids Enterprise mentioned on April 22


New week of early mornings… working in the field… continued posting Apr 22 Enterprise pages


From the local newspaper in Coon Rapids, Iowa, the Coon Rapids Enterprise, 75 Years Ago:

April 22, 1938 - front page below - all eight pages shared on other site, fascinating:


My comment: An interesting a different week… settling into some long term routines.


Families are forever!  ;-)

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