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.
We Are Going to Have to Leave This Farm - Friday, August 17, 1962
Norma came over this morning and asked us if we "got the letter." We hadn't. She said she felt bad about it and hated to tell us, but we were going to have to leave this farm after the first of the year. We still haven't seen anything of the letter. We'd been expecting as much any time now. It will be ten years. Charlie and Helen probably talked her in to selling the place. I'm working on memorizing the books of the Bible. I did it once for the Old Testament to make up a Sunday School absence. I'm reading Song of Years by Bess Streeter Aldrich.
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Did your dad farm there?
Yes, as a tenant farmer. Glenn Martin was the farm owner, but he died when I was a sophomore in high school. Norma Martin, his wife, continued to live in the big house across the road and south a bit from our small house.
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