16-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Thursday, May 18, 1911: Carrie Stout was over this afternoon. We went for lilacs and after she had a big bouquet, she became afraid of the bumble bees.
Her middle-aged granddaughter’s comments 100 years later:
Sounds like two friends having fun on a pleasant spring day while doing simple things together—gathering lilacs while goofing around as they worried about bumble bees. Ah, the joys of being young and carefree.
