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.
Chilled to the Wind Off Lake Erie, Saw Skyline - Saturday, August 8, 1964
We got to Grandma Kay's at 3:30. I drove most of the way from the Ohio line to Cleveland. Daddy took over as soon as we got off the turnpike. I called Verna Thompson, and we had a nice phone conversation, but I guess we won't be able to see each other. She thinks she has German measles. We drove around tonight to see some old landmarks (including the school where Mom went from Kindergarten through third grade). We went down to Lake Erie and chilled to the wind off the lake and looked at the Cleveland skyline. I cut some weeds behind Grandma's garage for her. We girls walked over to the shopping center drugstore. I called Bob Barnes just for fun, but he's in Oklahoma for Bob Young's wedding.
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I don't think I am familiar with the phrase "chilled-to-wind" - does it just mean cooled off?
I guess I thought "chilled to the wind off the lake" was a picturesque way to say the wind coming off Lake Erie made us feel very cold.
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