Manual Labor–’Tis Best to Like It

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Sheryl

16-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:

Saturday, April 8, 1911: I cleaned the yard today. I have to get down to manual labor since school has stopped, whether I like it or not, but tis best to like it. I guess for then you can do it easier.

Recent photo of home Grandma lived in when she was writing this diary. She would have been cleaning this yard.

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Dr. Bill (William L.) Smith, on April 8, 2011 at 4:41 pm said:

Neat to have the photo. Nice yard!

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Sheryl, on April 8, 2011 at 9:48 pm said:

I’m not sure what the buildings and yard looked like a hundred years ago, but according to my father it looks very similar to the way it looked when he was a child. It’s kind of cool that it probably hasn’t changed much over the years.

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Hello

I look forward to sharing my grandmother's diary with relatives and friends. Helena Muffly (Swartz) kept a diary from 1911-1914. She was 15 years old when she began this diary. I plan to post these entries one day at a time—exactly 100 years after she wrote them. I hope you enjoy this glimpse back to a slower paced time.

The header is a picture of the farm where my grandmother lived when she wrote this diary. It is located in Northumberland County in central Pennsyvlania about a mile outside of McEwenvsille. My father says the buildings look similar to what they looked like when he was a child.

A Hundred Years Ago

Helena Muffly

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