Ellen, I am not related in any way (not yet anyway :}) but am enjoying the excerpts from this wonderful find! You are so right...the more things change, etc.; I relay that old adage to my grandchildren all the time! Mickey in Iowa Researching: Tool (various spellings);Fudge;Frazer;Chestnut; Benn;Gant;Wood;Fouts and allied lines. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ellen Rowan Taylor <rowan.taylor@verizon.net> To: <ILWOODFO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 10:41 AM Subject: [ILWOODFO-L] More from Cora > > > Thought I would share a New Year's entry from 112 years ago. This one drives me crazy-Charley was my grandfather. What in the world did he tell her? > > Enjoy, and Happy New Year 2001 to all. (wonder what Cora would think if she knew we were all reading her diary New Year's Eve, 2001. I hope she would approve, but she probably wouldn't) > > Cora's grand niece, > Ellen Rowan Taylor > > > "A Christmas present from Charley to Cora Rowan December 1888. > > January 1 1888 > > To day begins the new year. I was home this forenoon but came back to my boarding place this evening. > It has been very dissagreeable to day from a cold SW wind.Although Sunday, I have been busy all day. Have been studying since supper. ) > Charley told me something which surprised me greatly. (How changefull the human mind.) (mw) > > Mon Jan 2 > Rose at 7 and made my bed before breakfast. About ten o'clock Prof. Kirk came very unexpectedly to visit the school. He spoke to the children awhile. Talked quite a time before leaving at noon. Gave his apporval of my methods of teaching reading and history, also arith. > Begged me not to give up teaching. Came home as soon as school closed-Why? (e.c.stopped) Very bad cold & headache. Invited to dance. > > Tuesday Jan 3 > Rose 6:30. Made bed before breakfast. Went to school and swept. All has passed very pleasantly today. Dome good work done. Knit on mittons before supper. Studied and knit after supper till 9+.A man's sled upset with a load of wood on it this even. > Did not speak to the large boys much to day-What a pity. I do wonder if they are past all hope." > > Any teachers out there with "large boy students"? The more things change,the more they stay the same. :-) > > > > ==== ILWOODFO Mailing List ==== > Woodford County website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilwoodfo/index.htm