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~ 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 Jean Gaylord's House Overlooking a Waterfall - Monday, July 12, 1965

We are just beginning to get into the mountainous region of New York. Tonight we are staying in the Adirondack Forest Preserve at a motel on Oxbow Lake. We girls took a rowboat out on the lake and went out a second time with Mom along. We visited friends of Grandma from her school days in Skaneateles and Syracuse and saw some of the houses in which she used to live. We also stopped at the garden store of Mom's cousin Jean (the one who still has a cabin on Lake Canandaigua) and her husband. She took us out to their house - fabulous, overlooking a waterfall on their own property. We really do like Jean.

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