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.
Planning to Get a Brown Horse - Monday, July 23, 1962
Tonight we went up to a place near Sigourney to look at a horse they had. I guess we're going to get it. He's brown and alright except sort of a fat stomach. (That, by the way, is one of my problems!) Then, too, like me, his hair (mane) sort of sticks up! Ann is at Darlene's. Merl and Jim stopped after they finished up their detasseling - for good, they hope. Merl has to leave tomorrow. Roberta Hess stopped with Jerolyn's present to me that I never got for helping with the gifts - a pretty bracelet.
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2 comments:
Ah summer. Reading your entry today I caught that nice hay sweet horse barn smell.
Even with the image of the funny looking horse.
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