{"id":640,"date":"2010-05-12T22:18:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T05:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/?p=640"},"modified":"2010-05-12T22:18:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T05:18:24","slug":"great-aunt-aidas-1881-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/?p=640","title":{"rendered":"Great Aunt Aida&#8217;s 1881 Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Aidaorigcvr.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Aidaorigcvr.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"Aidaorigcvr\" width=\"360\" height=\"520\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-642\" srcset=\"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Aidaorigcvr.gif 360w, http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Aidaorigcvr-207x300.gif 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Original scan of Aida&#8217;s 1881 diary.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 2005, I raided my mom&#8217;s treasure chest of old photos and family memorabilia. In it was a small, about 2.75 inches wide and 4 inches long, diary that belonged to my great aunt Aida Austin. Great Aunt Aida was 19 years old when she started writing the diary in January.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, I published <em>Aida Austin&#8217;s 1881 Diary<\/em>. It included scans of each entry, and I typed up what I could read. My husband Gary, laid out the book and got it ready to print. <\/p>\n<p>After working on <em>The Mill on Halfway Brook<\/em>, I now have a better understanding of who many of the people in Aida&#8217;s diary were. I recently met (via email) an Austin descendant that shared some photos of the people mentioned. <\/p>\n<p>A second edition of <em>Aida Austin&#8217;s 1881 Diary<\/em>, complete with corrected info, old and new &#8216;old&#8217; photos will soon be available.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the Diary will be in book 2, <em>Echo Hill and Mountain Grove<\/em>, but <em>Aida Austin&#8217;s 1881 Diary<\/em> is also a stand alone book of daily life in Eldred and New York City, New York, in 1881.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/aidacvrall.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/aidacvrall.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"aidacvrall\" width=\"526\" height=\"286\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-643\" srcset=\"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/aidacvrall.gif 526w, http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/aidacvrall-300x163.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The original scan of the outside of Aida&#8217;s diary opened up.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original scan of Aida&#8217;s 1881 diary. In the summer of 2005, I raided my mom&#8217;s treasure chest of old photos and family memorabilia. In it was a small, about 2.75 inches wide and 4 inches long, diary that belonged to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/?p=640\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aida-austin-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/halfwaybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}