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.
Mom's Father was Born in Hartland Four Corners, Vermont - Tuesday, July 13, 1965
Tonight we are on Mascoma Lake in New Hampshire. We went through a lot more of the Adirondacks and crossed into Vermont via a ferry on Lake Champlain. We saw many picturesque New England villages. Woodstock, Vermont, where some of our family history begins, is so pretty. We went through Hartland Four Corners where Mom's father was born. A little farther on, near Hartland, we drove out into the country and found an old distant relative whose poorly kept house I can hardly believe, was real and not fiction! These mountain lakes are so pretty.
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