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 – 1986-06-29

Sunday, June 29, 1986
Slept until 9:30- bath and hair washed. Breakfast on deck with Howard looking on. Gorgeous blue cloudless sky. Temperature 82. Dave and Oleta went swimming at Whetstone Pool. I wrote letters to Slack and Jordan that I met yesterday, Mary Dye sent original 1894 wedding story, Ralph Ramey, Ted Myers and Kensel Clutter on prairie brochure, Stuart Brown column on wedding as he gave me the original, Tommy Hammerly.

To shop at 8:30 to copy stuff to put in letters. To Center to pick up beans to soak for cooking tomorrow. Shopping Big Bear, money machine for $50 and got gasoline. Home at 10:30 supper.

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Trella Hemmerly – 1986-06-28

Saturday, June 28, 1986
Tommy Hemmerly called and they will be coming for the Prairie Conference.

Tuned in to Madge Guthery on The Way We Were [WMRN] at 8:15 and she said today was the once a year open house at the floating Cranberry Island at Buckeye Lake. Called Mary and she said “Let’s go!” Wrote letter to Jenny Fentling- Bertha Morris granddaughter- on a publisher for her poems.

Weeded and fertilized. Mary Dye called to tell me how thrilled she was to read my column on the McNeil-Fairchild wedding.

Got to the bog about 2:00. 1 hour wait for boat and 40 minute visit- Calypogon and rose pagonia the big show. Plenty of cranberry and pitcher plant blooming. Stopped at Hildreth home in Knox County and met Mrs. Darrel Jordan who lives there.

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Trella Hemmerly – 1986-06-27

Friday, June 27, 1986
Dave and I picked Mary up at 9:00 a.m. and headed for Toledo. Visited Promenade and Portside area before boarding the Sandpiper, a replica of a canal boat docked near where the canal met the river in the 1840s. We were the only passengers so Dave steered the whole 4-mile trip under bridges with little clearance. Captain Don kept us entertained with stories of what was and is along the banks. Then to Fort Meigs at Maumee- good taped tour made you feel you were there in 1813 during a British Siege. To Napoleon and then home in 2 in of rain.