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.
Exploring Mackay's Clockworks - Sunday, November 26, 1961
This afternoon Flo and I walked down to the Missouri River and sat on a log by the edge of the water. It's just a short distance out a mud road through a corn field from the edge of Parkville. The people who keep the Parkville city dump live out that way and they have some cute Beagle pups and chickens running around. Then Flo and I explored the clockworks of Mackay. We found our way up a rickety old ladder and found old pictures (including the class of 1902) up there among old broken boards and chairs. We got up there by going through a door in the back of a third floor room. Tonight some of us went to youth fellowship. Midway through we were handed a note that said "Salvation Army try outs, be quiet!" We had a good sermon today by Dr. R.M. Trelease of St. Paul's Episcopal.
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What was Mackay's Clockworks?
The clockworks were in the interior of the clock tower. Flo was the leader. I was the follower. As I recall she climbed higher up on the ladder than I did.
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