About the diary writer
- Barbara McDowell Whitt
- Kansas City, Missouri, Alexandria, Virginia, United States
- ~ About: A 1961-65 Park College Diary ~ As a high school girl and then a college coed in the first half of the 1960s, I wrote nightly entries on the pages of one-year diaries. In January 2010 I began transcribing the entries into a blog and gave each one a title. I grew up on three farms within 30 miles of Iowa City and the University of Iowa with its Iowa Writers' Workshop. As the oldest of four daughters, in my diaries I sometimes referred to my sisters as "the kids" or "the girls." We helped our parents, but we also had good, wholesome fun - a characteristic I took with me to Park. Park is 300 miles southwest of West Chester, Iowa, in Parkville, Missouri, on the Missouri River 10 miles northwest of Kansas City, Missouri, and across the river from Kansas City, Kansas. In 2000 Park College became Park University. Today Park's flagship campus is in Parkville and there are an additional 41 campus centers across the nation. Park was one of the first educational institutions in the United States to offer online learning. My last post was on May 22, 2018. I may be followed on Twitter @BarbaraMcDWhitt.
This Was a Very Hot Day - Sunday, July 30, 1961
This has been one of the hottest days I remember. We'll all be sleeping downstairs again. We got up this morning to chase in Stout's pigs that had come over here through the corn. At first we thought they were ours. We didn't get to church until time for Sunday School and Daddy wasn't able to get there for that. Our class listened in on Isabelle's. There were more pigs to "chase" tonight. It was too hot to do anything else all day except eat, sleep, watch TV, read and pick scraps with each other.
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Sounds like yesterday here!
Yes, we had that kind of day here. I still read under the wisteria arbor in the "Plaza Light" park half a block west of the building where we live.
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