2026-05-09T02:31:08Z

Maybelle Caley Barker, Diaries

Abstract Or Scope

Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), olive green, 1965, writer was 75/76 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities (week long stretches with no entries due to vacation and illnesses); sparse to no mention of local, national or world events; (Space walk with Ed White 3-7 June, "Negroes rioting in in LA", Watts Riots11-15 August. Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities (bridge club, playing Canasta), historical society activities, social activities, Liberace concert (9 April), health issues, senior citizen activities, pets (Moo-Moo), church business, Ray Sondergard and Nadine Noble Sondergard courtship, Ray goes back to 1st wife ("couldn't stand the TV dinners she (Nadine) served him," (29 Jul), financial transactions, deaths of friends and family, local travel, and vacations. Diary (13.5 x 19.5 cm), black, 1966, writer was 76/77 years old, mainly partial and a few full page daily entries on her activities (week or longer stretches with no entries due to vacation and increasing bouts of illnesses); sparse to no mention of local, national or world events "Conditions bad in Vietnam against USA" (8 April), Riot in Watts (18 May), Reagan won primary (8 June), memories of father (13 June), "Republican's had big victory" (8 November). Subjects include holiday and birthday celebrations with gifts, weather observations, daily household operations, cooking and meals, correspondence from family and friends, lunches and social activities (bridge club, playing Canasta), historical society activities, health issues (self, Ray) senior citizen activities, pets (Moo-Moo died,1 October, misses "so much"), church business, Ray Sondergard and Nadine Noble Sondergard renewed courtship, Ray quitting jobs, marriage (15 April), Ray ill and can't/won't work (26 August), financial transactions, and deaths of friends and family.