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.
Saw Lake Superior and Hibbing Iron Ore Mine - Saturday, July 28, 1962
We're just about at the top of the United States - near International Falls in Minnesota. After we crossed into Duluth this morning we drove along the North Shore of Lake Superior as far as Two Harbors. Then we went west 80 miles to visit the two Laddehoff families and Crawfords who moved up here from West Chester. Coming on up through north central Minnesota we saw birch trees and iron ore, pine trees and lakes. At Hibbing we stopped to see the world's largest open pit iron ore mine, three miles long and a mile wide. Something! It's so pretty up here.
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We are headed up to Two Harbors and on north along the shore almost to Canada this time next week!
I thought about you as I was posting this.
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