17-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Friday, July 26, 1912: Just a month from today and study hours will be resumed. How glad I will be when they arrive. Carrie came over this afternoon and evening.
Her middle-aged granddaughter’s comments 100 years later:
Just as Grandma felt a hundred years ago, I sense that fall will be here soon. The days are getting shorter . . . and, as my father says, “The wind is blowing over the wheat stubble.”
Carrie refers to Grandma’s friend Carrie Stout.
A Hundred Years Ago 
I felt the same way when I was her age. I looked forward to school starting again.
I wish Grandma could go to college after graduation. She loves school so much.
It is too bad. I agree that she would have enjoyed college. Times were so different back then in regards to who went to college.
And I’m finding my first yellow leaves… I was so astonished to see so many under one tree… and it’s still July! I think she loved her friends so much… and school brought them together.
I try to enjoy every moment of summer–fall comes too fast.