Dewitt was born
on the family farm on Bassette Road, Sunday, August 13, 1899. In the years from
1919 to 1982 he recorded the events of the day for 63 years.
Today, something
a little different to recognize the passage of time, and possibly give all of
us something to think about.
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| August 13, 1919 Interlaken Historical Society Collection: Dewitt Bassette Diaries |
Wednesday,
August 13, 1919 (twenty years old)
Finished
thrashing wheat today. 680 bushels on 22 acres.
Went over to see
my sweetheart tonight.
Our first spring
wheat we ever raised gave 30 bushels per acre.
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August 13, 1929
Interlaken Historical Society Collection: Dewitt Bassette Diaries
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Tuesday, August
13, 1929
I celebrated my
birthday by going fishing this afternoon. Caught my third nice black bass.
Dr. Hill was
down there fishing.
Forrest raked up
some of the alfalfa.
I shot a hawk at
110 paces with the 22 spc.
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August 13, 1939
Interlaken Historical Society Collection: Dewitt Bassette Diaries
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I am 40 today.
Hot and dry again. The rain is all gone and the garden wilts ever [y] day.
Lawns and
pasture are green and that helps.
F. Ritchie and
I went fishing but not much luck.
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| August 13, 1949 Interlaken Historical Society Collection: Dewitt Bassette Diaries |
Cloudy and
cooler Temperature 68.
I am 50 today.
The rain we got should help my beans, potatoes & corn.
We are plowing
oats stubble for wheat. The rain went down to the bottom of the furrow.
Mother is very
low today. Edna is going down to Mother’s tonight.
[August 15, 1949
Dewitt records the passing of Mary Catherine Peterson Bassette, age 85.]
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| August 13, 1959 Interlaken Historical Society Collection: Dewitt Bassette Diaries |
Thursday, August
13, 1959
Temperature 77,
cloudy, very hot this m[orning].
I am 60 today.
Talked with Catherine on the telephone from Tamps, Fla at 6 o’clock. They are
predicting showers.
Leland is raking
up some straw. I took a tire down to be repaired. Temperaure 90, cloudy and
north wind at noon.
Drove down to
the lake after dinner and got a load of gravel.
Mrs. Wigner
& Biri were over and brought me a couple boxes of candy for my birthday.
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| August 13, 1969 Interlaken Historical Society Collection: Dewitt Bassette Diaries |
Wednesday,
August 13, 1969
Temperature 65
Clear
We cleaned out
the strawberry bed. Took out two thirds of the old plants and cut the old
foliage from those plants we left. Cultivated them. Hope to have some berries
from them again next year.
Parson started
combining my oats this afternoon. Warm today, to 85.
Big parades for
the Apollo crew today in N.Y.City, Chicago and Los Angeles. Big dinner them in
California tonight.
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| August 13, 1979 Interlaken Historical Society Collection: Dewitt Bassette Diaries |
Monday, August 13, 1979
Temperature 48.
My birthday. Got some minnows and went to lake and fished to Sheldrake with B.
Haviland. Caught some small fish but no bass.
A nice day on the
lake.
How many of us
can look back and recall the way we spent our birthday over the years? Might
there be a story to be shared within your family as you recall your birthday
over the years? Like Dewitt there were high points, and the memory each year of
those no longer celebrating with us.
Dewitt’s Diary
Friday, August 13, 1982
Another year
older this morning. A shower by mid-afternoon. Very tricky weather and some
rain this afternoon
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| August 13, 1982 Interlaken Historical Society Collection: Dewitt Bassette Diaries |
[Dewitt died May
1, 1983]
[Dewitt C. Bassette Jr. was the third child of Dewitt C. [Sr.] and Mary Peterson Bassette, his older brother Myron was the author's grandfather. DC and Mary's first child, Harold died as an infant, see October 1, 1890.]
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