Author: David Haldeman

Sunday, July 27, 1975
To Boston by 9. Visited Burial grounds, Park St. Church, walked across Commons. Public Gardens, along Beacon St. Photographed gold dome of capitol & spend 1/2 hr trying to find Fanueil Hall but one way streets curving were too much for us. Headed for Plymouth via freeway & here was Fanueil Hall right by it! Hot at Plymouth but toured Mayflower II & the Wax Museum. Too tired to go to Plymouth Plantation. Kathi had headache so didn’t stop at Saybrook where Alexander Chalker lived. All night at Howard Johnson in Milton, Conn.

Friday, July 25, 1975
Woke up to rain – & it did off & on all day. Took pictures at workshop & finally have FTD through my head on P/L. Lunch in room. Drove out to find laundramat, passed Craigsville Beaach, Old Harbor Candle Co. & the Kennedy Compound & found it (Laster found it was 3 blocks from the hotel!)
Shopped in Hyannis – Bought books, leather flower, rings for kids & wondered how these shops stay in business. Dinner at Friendly Ice Cream & back to hotel – Kids to move here. Kathi & I packed – Talked to David Sommers, woodcarver in lobby. He knows Spindler.

Saturday, July 26, 1975
Last session – Lots crammed in. Loaded car – checked out – Hotel bill $328 (about).
Stopped at Sandwich, visited museum, Old Mill, Haxie House & exhibit of Thornton Burgess. Got to E. Weymouth about 4 & found Marion Ray & Helen Varnum just the same. Marion’s pewter work has been published in a book about her teacher. She’s now doing necklaces & small animals. Bought a necklace $25. Nice dinner topped with ice cream & fruit compote. Garden vegetables. Served us bread, sugar & mint sandwiches. Stayed at the Boston Motel in Weymouth.

Thursday, July 24, 1975
Breakfast in room – class at 8:30. Marketing – not much help to me – I know my area too well. 12 of us loaded into my card & Mike’s at 12:45 for the Ocean Street Docks & the 2 hr boat trip on the Brant Point – $8 – to Nantucket. A little choppy but pleasant. Nantucket looks like a stage setting – Everything is too perfect. Cobblestone Streets. Too 1 1/2 hr bus tour – Island is 14 miles long – acres of bayberry. Shopping – bought scrimshaw & copper enamel (Kathi – a 5 & 12 lavalier at $28) 8:00 boat back – docked at 10 & back into Hyannis traffic.

Wednesday, July 23, 1975
Finished Shop Operations & started Marketing. Gave us our own area marketing survey figures. I have 1/2 the business & there are 4 shops!
Took kids to pool.
The 4 of us drove up to Rt 6H & enjoyed that route best of any. Houses are all “Cape Cod” & well kept. Stopped at Corporation Beach – Long shallow. Kids enjoyed that. Clams for me eating outdoors & then to Rock Harbor. Tide out so we walked on tidal flats for nearly 2 hrs. Watched terns feed babies, sun go down, tide turn, crabs swim & got our shoes wet. Called Marian Ray & will visit them Sat. PM. Called Mary – everything ok.

Tuesday, July 22, 1975
Kids with Ben McKinnous daughter – his saga is something – Moved them into a room with a water bed – caught son’s hand in door – someone backed into his rental car while he was parked – His wife is ready to leave.
Left for Provincetown about 2:30. Stopped at Visitor Center of National Seashore – Nauset Beach. Went to Coast Guard Beach for few minutes. Kathi & kids in surf. Stopped at Highland light & then to Provincetown. Spent most of time in a restaurant. Climbed to top of Pilgrim monument for sunset. Home about 10. Kid couldn’t replace dipstick after checking oil. Bob called.

Monday, July 21, 1975
Bfst in Hotel Dining Room $13.00!
8:30 Session on Daily Shop operations – about 20 atending. Mike Demery & Earl Hebert – good team. At lunch break took Bertha from Fresno to Howard Johnson;s with us into Hyannis traffic. Late getting back while she got tape. Afternoon session out at 4 & then to pool. Enjoyed whirlpool.

Sunday, July 20, 1975
Left Ethan Allen Motel at Danbury about 9:30 – Sleepless night with Davy kicking my sore hip. Stopped at Glastonbury, Conn. graveyard trying to find Isaac Chalker’s grave – No luck but found other names listed in Hildreth Genealogy, Houses along Main St. dated and named. Stopped at wharf area of Newport, R.I. Reconstructed.
Arrived Hyannis at 6:00 – checked in front – freshened & to cocktail party – Mike & Earl from FTD – Marilyn from Fall River, Frank from Rome NY – Mint from Ala. Lobster at outdoor dining room with Marilyn – Pool closed when Kathi took kids down.

Saturday, July 19, 1975
Kathi 34.
Breakfast in room at Riverside Motel & leaving at 8:45. Forgot it was Kathi’s birthday until we got gas. Snack at rest stop along I-81. Picked blueberries. Superb highway I-84 & 17 to Bear Mt. area. Up Perkins highway to top overlooking Hudson River. Lunch on a rock. Kathy helped guy jump battery. Through Highland Falls, Bob’s hometown – to West Point. Impressive buildings & monuments & beautiful view of the Hudson. Soft drinks in Highland Falls & on I-84 to Danbury, Conn. Very posh Ethan Allen Motel. $35. Suites & dinner ($20) Davy had a swim. Kristi tummy ache.

Friday, July 18, 1975
Kathi & kids our about 9 & we left about 9:30 for trip by car to Cape Cod & to attend the FTD workshop at Dunfey’s Resort at Hyannis. Out 309 to 71 & 224 to 80. Beautiful roads – but no rest areas on 80 for 100 miles except the one at state line where we didn’t stop! All night at Bewick, where Beth Hanning Sherman lived. Took in sidewalk sale (Kristi long blue dress $10) & walked out on bridge across the Susquehanna River. Antique type motel for $16.