MILTON MA-ROCKLAND ME-5 YR HANDWRITTEN DIARY-Lonesome-Depressed-Going Blind-1944

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MILTON MA-ROCKLAND ME-5 YR HANDWRITTEN DIARY-Lonesome-Depressed-Going Blind-1944:
$46.00

FANTASTIC, ORIGINAL, FIVE YEAR HANDWRITTEN DIARY KEPT BY BESSIE HEWETT, WHO IS SLOWLY GOING BLIND, DEAF AND LAME SHE IS IN HER 80\'S AND LEADS QUITE A BUSY LIFE. BESSIE HAS A HOME IN MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS, AND ROCKLAND, MAINE. DIARY DATES 1944-1948. Our author,Bessie Hewett, starts off this diary in 1944 with fairly strong handwriting, and one can see as she ages into her 80\'s that her health is failing and her handwritten entries become more difficult to read. On January 1, 1944 her handwritten entry \"Dr. Ralph Hatch says I have Choroiditis.That is the trouble with my eye.\" She is also looking for batteries for her hearing aid, her acousticon, as she calls it. She has a sister Frances who is married to Bert and they come and visit her quite often; especially Frances, however whenever Bessie is alone she slips into depression and will often write \"I am all alone today.I am lonesome. Every day is the same.\" She spends the winter months at her home in Milton, MA, and there is a constant coming and going of friends, relatives and neighbors, yet to be left along for one day isover whelming for Bessie and she just can\'t stand it. In the summer her friends come and take her to her house in Rockland Maine and the list of visitors, some who stay for days, is as long as her arm.
It appears that Bessie is always being picked up by Frances & Bert, or Vivian, Dot, brother Fred, Ada, Ruth, Carl Nelson, Alice, etc. and the list goes on as she does not ever travel alone. Her friends and family make sure she is well taken car of. She is taken out to dinner, to shopping, to Bar Harbor, Camden, Boothbay, Camden, Lincolnville Beach, Dodge Mountain, Lobster Pound, Portland, Harvard, Dedham Wellesley, Northport; so Bessie does get out and about, and when Thanksgiving arrives she \"has all the girls and their families here. it was so nice.\" Yet, inevitably Bessie is slowing down with age, and feels, lonesome and a bit despondent. On the days when no one comes to take her out or to visit her she works on her sewing, is making a braided rug, and some quilting. \"This will probably be the last crazy quilt I will ever make.\" Depression slips into her writing after just moments of having a wonderful time with her friends.

Bessie receives a pension of $35.00 a month, mentions that she paid the electric bill for two months which was $10, and appears to have no worries over money at all. She is well set in Milton, MA, and when shedoes not go to her cottage she will rent it, so Bessie is actually living a very good life. Mary appears to be a key figure in her life as she comes and goes from Canada to Milton. Shows up at the cottage in Maine, now and then, and sings in church. Bessie is very fond ofMary and when the diary entries begin in 1944, Mary has gone away to college. Bessie\'s sister Frances, will take Bessie here and there andspends a lot of time with her. When Frances spends time with her husband Bessie will lament \"Frances & Bert went to Worcester today. Iam alone all day. I am lonesome without Frances\" Bessie writes of her friends who seem to be dying off and she is very aware of that. Bessie\'s birthday is March 8, and she is 80 years old in 1948. \"We all went to Bertha\'s for my birthday party and I got 115 cards! Eva is always trying to find someone to stay here in the house with me but no one is to be found.\" She writes \"Nov. 2, 1944, Election Day. April 12, 1945, President Roosevelt has died. September 2, 1945, The War Has Ended. News Coming All Day.\" And, \"Dec. 6, 1947, Went to Dorothy\'s &Archies wedding and then to the Statler Hotel to the banquet and had areally nice time. Dec. 31, the year has ended and I am still here.\"

Of note, she has a very good friend who lives in Portland and comes to visit quite often, her name is Vivian Lord, she and Bessie are very close and quite possibly are related. Bessie has a few newspaper clippings inside the front cover of her diary and one of them pertains to her friend Vivian. Bessie has a handwritten entry \"It was five years ago today that Vivian adopted the baby. She was 2 months old.\" The newspaper clipping reads: \"Sharon Rose Makinen of St. George, was adoped by Sherman H. Lord and Vivian A. Lord, both of Rockland, Maine. They changed her name to Alice Elizabeth Lord. This happened December, 1940.\" I don\'t ever remember seeing an adoption notice before.
Bessie\'s home town of Milton, MA, is located between theNeponset Riverand theBlue Hills. It is bordered by Boston\'s Dorchester neighborhood and Mattapan neighborhoodto the north and its Hyde Park neighborhoodto the west,Quincyto the east and south,Randolphto the south andCantonto the west.Miltonis a town inNorfolk County, Massachusetts,United States and a suburb of Boston. The population was 27,003 at the 2010 census.Milton is the birthplace of former U.S. PresidentGeorge W.H. Bushand architectBuckminster FullerIn 2007, 2009, and 2011,Money Magazinelisted Milton 7th, 5th, and 2nd, respectively, on its annual list of the \"Best Places to Live\" in the United States. George Herbert Walker Bushwas born at 173 Adams Street on Milton Hill on June 12, 1924. He became the 41st President of the United Statesserving from 1989 to 1993, and his son would become the 43rd President. Coincidentally, Adams Street is named for the family of Presidents John Adamsand John Quincy Adamswho lived on the same street just a few miles southeast in Quincy.The Bush Family moved from Milton to Greenwich, Connecticut,in 1925. The Victorian house where President Bush was born is now privately owned and not open to the public.
Condition: Hardcover book has green cloth covers and is in very good condition, internally fresh and tight. There are handwritten entries on every page yet toward the later years Bessie\'s handwritten entries become fewer, shorter, and her handwriting becomes difficult to read;Bessie is starting to age. Measures approx. and is a very worthy acquisition indeed.Payment and Shipping: Please see our response and offer with confidence.Never a reserve and very low opening offer as always buyers with no established response must contact us before offerding. Payment must be received within 3 days after close of sale. Thank you.

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