Category: Trella Diaries

Monday, September 14, 2009
Dow 9626 (up 20 pts)
Finished sorting the box of (mostly) family letters – Half are from Kathi. Put the rest in folders – David Haldeman family, Kristi, Dave Decker, Genealogy, friends, others, etc.
About 2:30 had a call back from my call to Clutters earlier. Said I could visit right away. Was amazed to see Kensel so thin and to learn he had a pacemaker implanted Sept 8.
Had an interrupted heart beat, fuzzy, tight & in head & tired (my symptoms, too). Drove pas his prairie and Opal gave me red raspberries.
To Meijer for groceries = $32.
Gale for supper at 6:00 – Veggie soup & Meijer potatoe salad. Discussed how to improve MCHS involvement in Popcorn Festival due to visitor from Detroit.
Email from Jan Kennedy with link to Cheryl HG – butterfly pictures of yesterday – Fantastic!
Forwarded to D & K & then couldn’t bring them up to show Gale. She left about 7:00 – Had to remove sticker from her horse that had cyst removed.

Sunday, September 13, 2009
Dan Sheridan’s ‘Bicycling’ column in Marion Star featured Uncle Will Sheneman’s 1896 bicycle trip from Seattle Wash. to Marysville, OH with a link to http://tinyurl.com/tracia. I must log on!
To Claridon Prairie Marker at 12:45 & Gale already there. Jan & friends from Mansfield – Nancy Earl (Cheryl & Crestline), Bob & wife from Marengo and Warren [illegible] (Crawford Co. Park District) – small but interested group. Sawtooth Sunflowers spectacular & so much Riddells Goldenrod. I drove as they walked. Home by 4:00.

Saturday, September 12, 2009
Peeled, cut and cooked the peck of tomatoes – some from Don Keil.
Downloaded review of Harding Affair & First Lady Florence Kling Harding (Cleveland Plain Dealer review) & printed & also forwarded to Stu Koblentz.
To HH – Resource Center at 1:00. Met John Kalb & showed him the N.R. Historic Places application & prepared from his notes. Gale downloaded photos & printed out to add. With Jim Carpenter’s help.
Dr. Wenger’s receptionist came to buy DBY – no copious at HH. I’ll take one to the office. Left at 2:30. Hamburger at wendy’s. Corn at Crum’s wagon. Napped until 5:00.
Call from Donna Lawrence from Lancaster. Had spoken to DAR in Logan & was asking about Rishes & my connection.
Corn off cob for supper. To bed at 8:00. Finally article in Star on Claridon Prairie Tour.

Friday, September 11, 2009
TV Reports on Sept 11 attack. Up at 8:00 to put garbage out for collection & to feed birds. Back to bed and slept until 1:00.
Nice thank you email from Jed. From 12:00 until 5:00 trying to get to bottom of box of letters, etc. Bulk of them are from Kathi – one from Rita and Don Decker setting guidelines for living with them. A 4 page hand-drawn birthday card from Jed with a parage of birthday cakes. Need to sort Kathi’s letters chronologically. One letter I wrote describing Dave Decker & my exploration from SR 309 to Whetstone River Road. Another refers to Ralph Mills offer to build (and rent to me) a flower shop next to 229 E. Fairground. (I have forgotten so much). Fragment of letter when Mary & I went to Chicago to retrieve Dave D’s car. Interesting but emotionally draining day.
Email from Dave Matyac – Has old skids – ‘Can I bring to your burn pile?’ Ok – but I can’t dispose of old cemetery walk!
Merrill Lynch statement shows a gain of $1,306 – total $92,807. Had invested $15,000 being held as cash into equities.

Thursday, September 10, 2009
77° mostly sunny [Popcorn Festival]
Up at 8:15 – stripped my bed – load of laundry – fed birds – checked in with David & Kathi by email – picture of Kathi & Bob – both thinner. – bfst.
Royce & Jim arrived at 9:15 – Jim took down shower curtain & liner to lounder – reworked stone wall by mail box to take out the bulge [sic] – PLanted 5 peony plants roots – only 2 had ‘pink eyes’ – 3 look dead. He mowed across road & trimmed dead wood from white lilacs. Tey left at 1:30 – Royce $50 – Jim $40 – I mowed upper lawn and along lower drive. Rested from 3:15 to 3:45. Baked ham loaf.
Jed, Rae & Miette arrived at 5:45 instead of 5:00 as planned so most streets closed by time we got to Marioon at 6:15. Jed parked at Hemmerly’s b hard to find a spont & I thought they misunderstood & were walked to HH from there so I drive there. Had to park of High Street by Y – long walk to front steps. Betty white got me a chair – sat on top step. JR & L arrived walking ( I pulled away just as they headed to my car.
Boring parade – my last one – Bought raffle ticket for all family & Jed choose ‘art’. I left at 7:45 & J.R. L took me to car & then headed to Main & Center for ‘Festival’

Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Both David H and Dave D emailed they would like to attend Harding dinner with me on Nov 2 (Invited by Warren III) I think I don’t want to go.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Rainy 72° partly sunny
Finished “Harding Affair” at about 12:30 & then couldn’t go to sleep until about 4:00.
Up at 9:30 – Tired all day – Did load of laundry & one of dishes. Email from Jim Robinalt with review of Harding Affair from Cleveland Plain Dealer – same article reviewed Katy Sibley’s book “Florence Harding”. Email from Warren Harding III inviting me to Harding Dinner on Nov 2 & Columbus Club! I declined.
To HH at 4 for Nominating Committee meeting with trustee nominee Pat Smith Klehm [ Kz-illegible] (Howie’s daughter) & Matt Robbins – So young-! But receptive – Gale led them a tour of building – (I was too tired). No money to pay electric bill ($450 profit from T-shirts at Sar in Park – Gave them each an office copy of “basics”.
Shopped at Aldi’s – Too tired to cook supper -.
Gale called David & he called me. Will email me tomorrow.

Monday, September 7, 2009
Woke to thunder – Rained most of the morning.
Found 2005 letter from Bob Ferrell pertinent Robenalt book. SPent most of the day reading the Harding Affair – Carrie and Isabelle as spies for Germany – investigations in Marion & mention of names I know. Asa Queen – PM Campbell, Wysall.
He (JR) had found the link (that I suspected) between IOsabelle & Nan Britton & used it top discredit ‘The President’s Daughter’ – Glad he compared dates in President’s Daughter to Harding’s calendar!
As further proof that NB fabricated.
Picture on front page of Echoes (OHS Newsletter by story on death of Bill Laidlaw0 of him and me. Jim Strider names interim director. Did he choose it!

Sunday, September 6, 2009
Sunny 92 °
Humidity 32%
Winter wren in dogwood tree! 3rd life sighting.
No emails from David all week. Report (preliminary) on Robenalt book – send email invitation to Haldeman’s for Sunday Sept 20.
Spent most of afternoon on JR’s book – Can’t get the connection to [illegible] – suspected German spy before WWI!
Watered pots on deck & ramp.
Scrambled eggs & toast for supper. I don’t have much appetite.
Pg 330 of Harding Affair debunks Nan Britton at Plattsburgh, NY.

Saturday, September 5, 2009
Picked up mail before heading to Heritage hall and it included package from Clenland – Jim Robenalt’s “The Harding Affair” so I took it with me.
Man in parking lot from Kent, Ohio said front door was locked so I unlocked it. Ruth on duty and she “only tends the register”. So I stayed with her until Mary Malone – docent arrived about 2:00. Then to Resource Center where Lisa Carlisle was on duty. No visitors except Mary Malone looking for Sawyer Sanitorium info. Showed her the drawer full & recruited her to catalog it!
I copied the Nan Britton photo page from 1914 Quiver. “She thinks not what she says”!!
Also researched City directories from 1910-1924 & found Phillips at 413 S. Main & Britten at 434 S. Prospect in 19__
Completely exhausted so didn’t go to Saturday in Park (Lincoln) – shopped for produce at Meijer & home by 5:30. Had to rest before I cold heat up supper.
In bed at 8:30 – will be reading “The Harding Affair”