of her 1913 trip to California
with her mother, Lucy Marston Sargent
Beulah Sargent is my paternal
grandmother. Beulah was 24 at the time they took this trip from
their home in Concord, New Hampshire. Lucy was 58. Beulah
collected a large number of picture postcards along the
way, and I have tried to include them where they fit into her journal
entries.
I have tried to keep her spelling and grammar as she wrote it,
and
tried to recreate little drawings she made in the journal. I
think
I have some photos she took too, but haven't found them yet - when I
do,
I will add any that fit. The journal was started midway through their
trip
and stopped before they returned home. It is a delightful slice
of
life from a bygone day. I transcribed the journal using WordPerfect,
and have
created each page as an Adobe Acrobat pdf file. I will add more
as
I get done with them, but in case I don't finish, at least you will
have what
I have transcribed so far. I have included links to websites
regarding the locales of her trip.
March 5th-11th, 1913
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Mt. Lowe is located just north and east of Altadena, California. The Mt. Lowe Railroad that took travellers up to this beautiful resort, ended in 1936 - See the current efforts to restore this area at http://www.erha.org/mtlowe.htm
March 13-18th, 1913
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Day trips to Long Beach,
Cawston's Ostrich Farm etc.
March 19-25th, 1913
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Travel to Pasedena and visit Busch Gardens
March 26-April 1, 1913
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April 2 - April 8th, 1913
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San Diego,
La Jolla
April 9-12th, 1913
Page 19-21
End of record