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.
A Baby Owl Sits and Stares - Saturday, June 2, 1962
For the first and second days of June it has sure been cold. I didn't get around to putting away any more of my things, and on top of that the clothes rod broke and Phyl's and my clothes fell to the floor. We girls and Denise walked down to the culvert but we lost interest and came right back. She brought in a baby hoot owl tonight. The way it sat and stared was so cute.
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I am kind of wondering what interest the culvert had originally and why the interest was lost!
The culvert was under the old Highway 92 that ran through our farm. It formed a wide place in the creek on the east side. We used to go there to hunt for frogs or let our dogs swim. I guess we were getting bored with such activity the day we lost interest.
Sounds idyllic to me
And it was.
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