Category: Trella Diaries

Daily journal of Trella Hemmerly Haldeman Romine from 1933 to her death on February 19, 2013.

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Trella Hemmerly – 1990-05-11

Friday, May 11, 1990
MCHS 3 hr EHMA 1
39-59 Bought Prince of Wales & Sky ? Juniper & more veg & marigolds & ageratum.
In to Bob Evans for bfst with EHMA Board members Nye, Mauk, Barry, Winck – called by John Watkins to meet with Jim Craycraft of tri Rivers to discuss possibility of bld EHMA Museum on Tri Rivers property alopng Rt. 95 – area where Ed Huber had farm about 1900. Jim was very supportive. Pointed out parking is available – They have over 30 Acres not being used – construction could be by students – Jim will take our proposal to Tri-Rivers Board when we have it ready.
To Heritage Hall to take pictures for National Register nomination. – Jack brought me up to date on sponsorship appeal for Harding Collection. Gave him another $500 on my pledge for kitchenette. Balance $2,000. Picked up his column for Newsletter. Back home & took Howard to bank & grocery.
Left note for Wayne about no schedule A included with Trust & asking how Howard’s $60,000 in cash is invested. Then drove to Claridon Prairie & took camcorder pix. He was really impressed when I showed him the results. Wrote letters to all my grandchildren telling them that I’m thinking of leaving Terradise as a Nature Center. In to Marion to mail them as missed Caledonia 4:00 PM pick up when Richard West phoned in his building committee report & Charlie Evers brought his own. – Ate with 2 Mary’s – Her breast biopsy was bloody so another in 2 weeks. Barb having computer romance with Mary’s 6 & 4 yr old cousin.

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Trella Hemmerly – 1990-05-10

Thursday, May 10, 1990
Worked in greenhouse potting up vegetable plants from Myers.

Got bank statement & Joe Field deposited 45,000 as a 1/4 payment of interest due on land contract terminated last Oct. So wrote him thanks – cc to Robert Stout asking for note.
wrote to Kathi & sorted out pix to send her – also sent copies of letter to her to Dave & Kris along with notes to them. Sent letter & 2 books to Robert Vaneman – Ashland, Nebraska – descendants of Lucy Hildreth Coleman.

Ltter from Betty Bell with info on Prince Imperial from the Richwood area. Wonder if any connections to Josephine Hildreth Bell – Grandma Sheneman’s sister.

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Trella Hemmerly – 1990-05-09

Wednesday, May 9, 1990
Painted benches second coat. Ray also put up 3 new sections of rail fence toward pond.

Called David & then Larry Winchester about details of reprint. Platesl being made today but discovered David used the wrong file for Geo Brown’s Foreword.
Ray Foertsch brough his big rototiller & in about 1/2 hr turned a weed patch into an ash pile. (Daddy’s name for friable soil ready to plant) – Couldn’t resist it – all 70’x20′ and saved all the prairie seeds I’d saved for 3 yrs – Sullivants & whorled milkweed, liatris scariosa & spicata, western ironweed, solidago rigida & ridelli, cord grass.
Also dug out all the old vegetable seeds & planted lettuce, corn, broccoli, caultiflower, cabbage, pepper, zuchinni, muskmelon, radishes – Also purchased new seeds & plants of tomatoes, pepper, cabbage. – to hedge my bets1
In at 3:00 to HH to meet Judge Myers & Lou Whitmoare for interview & picture about The Story of Marion, Ohio for the centennial tab.
Shopped at Big Bear $50.02 – got gas for car & mower.
Checking acct statement shows $5,000 payment from field – Int not pd on land contract on Normandy. $15,000 balance.

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Trella Hemmerly – 1990-05-07

Monday, May 7, 1990
Used [PC] Anywhere with modem to send files to David that didn’t arrive by mail.
Forest group arrived at 10:00 (instead of 11) – Lovely sunny warm day. Toured the lower woods – Trilliums & mertensia & phlox still blooming. Sack lunch on deck supplemented by fruit salad from Kathi’s recipeful from Alaska I decided not to go to Travel series with them. Too nice a day to be coopped up in a theater – In to Sears to get paint when I mailed more copy to David for reprint.
Tabor Allison – 36 yr old professor of botany at OSUM finally made it to Terradise. Spent delightful evening showing him all my treasures. Gave him a list of trees, shrubs & wildflowers growing at Terradise. Drove to abandoned Williamsport Rd area across river – sampled nature books in my library & discussed possibilities of Terradise becoming a part of OHSM’s [OSUM] Nature Center Program. Tabor is not a demonstrative person but he was excited by the possibilities & confessed his first love is forestry.