Last week, I shared new tidbits of information about my mother’s life via handwritten notes she created while completing Milton Kamen’s A Grandparent Book, although some of this bits and pieces Never made it onto a page of the book.

Today’s we’ll look at the next portion of the miscellaneous phrases found on the paper:

We’ll be looking at the portion of the page below the crease line.

“Calais – 2-3” Mom is talking about herself here – her tongue never stopped, so I guess she was a talker! She’s describing a drive from Maine to Boston with Grandmother and great grandmother Annie. Aunt Barbara stayed with Nammie, aka Nellie (Tarbox) Adams. Grandfather (Vernon Adams) did the driving.

They apparently traveled in a Lincoln automobile with a “wealthy” woman whose name Mom doesn’t remember.

It was late fall. The road from Calais to Bangor was a logging highway and it was called the Airline because of the ups and downs. she described the storm as “horrendous” with trees across the road.

Mom mentions Newport, which was not Newport, Rhode Island, but a small town in Penobscot County, Maine. I guess because of the storm, they stayed there overnight and the owner greeted them. Mom, in turn, introduced Mommy, Daddy and Nana.

The weather must have put Grandfather in a bad mood, as his response to Mom’s constant babbling was “Will you shut up?” Her reply, said 2 or 3 times, was “I wuv you daddy!”

The left side of the paper has an additional note, written with a different pen. It’s about later life in Ridgewood and mentions a Tea Shop 7./wk and Drug Store 14./wk.

I believe these are perhaps referring to Mom’s first jobs, where she was paid $7 and $14 per week.

Under it, we find: YWCA food prep [nutrition?] NY, acct, Tea Room mgmt.

This portion makes me wonder if Mom wasn’t remembering Aunt Barbara’s jobs, as Aunt Barbara completed a course in Tea Room training in 1941, soon after she graduated from Ridgewood High School in New Jersey:

There is one more section that pertains more to my grandmother’s early married life.