January 5th, 1937, Saint Mark’s Place, Manhattan, Maggie’s diary continues: Grace (Maggie’s domestic help) was sick so very domestic day.  At a little after three I met Bobbie Sutton in Macy’s baby Department where there was a sale going on. She helped me buy necessities—diapers, shirts, sheets, pads of one sort and another, stockings; then […]

January 4th, 1937, Saint Mark’s Place, Manhattan, Maggie’s diary continues: just picture her with a round beach ball for a belly! The doctor was having a busy morning.  Miss Glenn says baby won’t come until Feb. 7,  but he seems to think may arrive before. After doctor to Peck & Peck’s to buy six pairs […]

Here I post a daily diary entry from my grandmother, who lived on Saint Mark’s Place, Manhattan, in 1937, and a blog entry from yours truly, who lives in Brattleboro, Vermont, 2010. The most appetizing picture of haggis I could find (you’ll understand later…) January 3, 1937,Saint Mark’s Place, Manhattan, Maggie writes: Up late and […]

And so, in case you all are wondering: What did my grandma Maggie do on New Years Day?! Maggie New Years Day, Saint Mark’s Place, Manhattan, 1937 M. got day off, so laid around late and then up for Sunday breakfast at 11.  Grimes  came over, sent out for canned lemon juice and caviar and […]

I’m not armless in this picture, my arms are behind me! Suzanne, The Eve of New Years Eve, 2009: On the coldest day of the season, P. and I took the Metro North to Grand Central to chase my dead grandmother.  P. looking very French in chapeau and me in mink hat.  Lauren met us […]