Hazy & cold in morn, 8 above zero, very clear but windy in afternoon & cold. Father went to Milton. Staid in Store some & in house some & c. Abby Daniels is here. Dr. Taft called here. Freight train came up first time for a long time. Left 2 cars, 1 of shingles. Abbie commenced sewing straw.
In the 1850s, on a busy working farm in the southern part of Franklin, a man named George Wadsworth started writing in a journal about everyday events. When he filled that journal, he bought another, and filled that up too. Two dozen journals, and 27 years later, he had written about almost everything that can happen in a small New England town. His words were lost to history until 1986, when town resident Gail Lembo came across some of the journals at a yard sale.
From the Franklin Historical Museum website
http://www.franklinhistoricalmuseum.com/p/wadsworth-diaries_30.html
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