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.
Marilyn Monroe Committed Suicide - Monday, August 6, 1962
Time rushes on. This was a hot day. Marilyn Monroe committed suicide early Sunday morning with sleeping pills. I've been reading "On the Shores of Silver Lake." It's so interesting to read about the girls and Ma and Pa out on the prairie right where we were. They took down one of our landmarks today - the big elm tree in the far south fence row. It almost looked human when it fell, as if it were writhing in pain. I wrote a long letter to my "little sister." I got one from Marilyn where they live now in Florida and one from Mrs. Cowan.
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We just drove through Spring Valley MN on our way home. That is where Almanzo Wilder lived as a kid and Laura Ingalls and he lived for a while. I started catching up on your blog while Dan drove and found your Little House reference
Coincidences while traveling are fun.
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