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Originally Posted by John A. Birdsall
My grandfather kept a camp journal for the cottage in Merrymeeting Cove, and it was interesting and sometimes we have to use it to find out how he did something or when it was done. he recorded purchasing lumber from Barnes and how much it cost. He drew diagrams with measurments on it, and he talked about there trips from Melrose Mass to the cottage and where they ate. He mentioned who was at the camp an when. When the cottage was turned over to my father, he has done the same thing. We used it this summer when we were having trouble with the drain system in the cottage its fun of sorts to say something was done in say 1975 and then find that it was 1962. And back when we did not have a truck available how did they get the material to the camp they tied it on the roof of the car. That may not seem odd but think of a steel glidder on the roof. Family cottages have many memories and need to be shared.
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OMG, my grandfather did the same thing with "opening camp" instructions and "closing" camp of the same. Included were hand drawings of how everything worked. He was an MIT engineer who had a Boston business selling and installing DURO pumps, and I have to assume some were sold in the LR area. Our's still works!