Category: Trella Diaries

Thursday, November 5, 1987
[No entry]

Wednesday, November 4, 1987
Spent 2 hours at Hemmerly’s with Kass and Pat planning new card and gift shop. Went over to Razor’s Edge to see the layout and were told to leave by Barr who is under a court order to move. My suggestion for a name “The Other Door” didn’t stand a chance against Pat’s “Paper Butterfly” and other nonsense. Decided on Hemmerly’s New Dimension. The whole thing is a bad idea but we can use the area for other than sales so I’m not voicing my doubts.
Piled bricks against the greenhouse.

To Center to get year book mailing out. To Hutchman’s for dinner and catch up talk. Good to be with them.

Tuesday, November 3, 1987
[Trella 72nd birthday]
Temperature 80 sunny dock Robert S. Brown elected mayor of Marion.
Got 10 birthday cards.
Kathi and David and Bob Harter called. Mary Jordan took Mary and me to lunch and Jerry’s in Galion.

80° sunny weather so we opened Kathi’s gifts on deck when we came back. Got Barbara Gerson’s- Charlie King’s letters ready and Dave’s pine cone Christmas tree and took to Caledonia P.O. and voted. Then to Claridon Prairie to collect seeds. Mowed in woods from 3:30 to 5:15
Watched “Apocalypse Now” to see scenes in Philippines that I saw along the Ponyongyan River gruesome.

Monday, November 2, 1987
To Huber committee meeting at 9:00- constitution passed. Norman and I to Center to get things together for our display for OAHSM meeting. Took McDonald’s food to Mary’s to eat. Cut some of her Pampas grass. Then we went to Palace for Ed Lark’s “Canadian National Parks”. I shopped for groceries at Krogers after getting $100 from the money machine.

Sunday, November 1, 1987
Harding video presentation big success. Rob Rupp also showed the original version again. Herb Gary gave summary of Harding property activities- over 5,000 visitors this year. Harry Mauk told about Harding rescuing the original Declaration of Independence and Constitution from burial in the State Department. By executive order had them moved to Library of Congress and placed on public view.
worked on George Schoechle’s description of life in Marion in the twenties- dropped his obituary off at the Star.

Saturday, October 31, 1987
Ruby Graham out with material she had on George Schoechle to help me write his obituary for the Star.
To White’s sale in Denmark. Bought a Seeders-Maltax, watering can, license plates $7.25 total.

Friday, October 30, 1987
Mowed the leaves on the upper lawn. Worked on Huber committee bylaws adapting them from MCHS which need revising badly.
Mary H. and Jordans came to go to Al’s in Cardington and I drove. Stopped at Beulah White’s on way home and picked up hand sewen and woven rag carpet. All of us coughed terribly all the way home. Beulah and Mandy had been here a.m. and brought a photo album- red plush that she bought in Caledonia in the ’60s for MCHS. Didn’t know whose it was.

Thursday, October 29, 1987
[No entry]

Wednesday, October 28, 1987
[No entry]

Tuesday, October 27, 1987
Wrote to Charlie King, head of Ohio Biological Survey about Bob’s [Bob Harter] idea of listing prairie indicator species within the genus in descending order of use in determining that it is a prairie. Also alerted to him to the Route 739 prairie*.

[*Trella later purchased this railroad right of way and donated it to the Marion County Historical Society]