NEBRASKA TUMBLR OF NOTE: Alma's Diary »

netnewsnebraska:

Excerpts from a diary written by a 16-year-old, living on a farm in Nebraska during the Great Depression, being posted one day at a time by her granddaughter:

“Nothing dies on the internet, so this is my part in making the record.

Grandma was seriously patient. After raising five children on a struggling farm she became a teacher for children with special needs. She also tried to teach me piano, encouraged me to write stories and always let me feed the goldfish in the pond. We would play Scrabble and Dominos often, sometimes with my Grandpa.

I called them G-ma and G-paw and didn’t share their affinity for black cherry ice cream until adulthood.

I inherited Grandma’s scrapbooks and diaries when she died a couple years ago. Like most things that have lived for a long time in old people’s homes, they have a musty smell. But they are precious and earnest and lovely. I am happy to know her personal history in such an intimate way.”

- Alma’s Diary