Blog Eugene Fischer | 09 Jun 2010
My parents recently had the carpet on the second floor of their house replaced. My father’s office is up there, historically a dense and chaotic ecosystem of files and books and four decades of computer electronics. All of this had to be temporarily clearcut for the carpet to be changed, and as my father reconstitutes [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 09 Dec 2009
Days 32 through 34 of my grandmother’s 1936 trip to Europe, covering a portion of her travels through Normandy. (Previously: Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7.) Paris to Rouen Sat. July 25 [1936] At 9:30 this morning we said our farewells to Kay & Charlotte & [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 08 Nov 2009
Days 28 through 31 of my grandmother’s 1936 trip to Europe, covering her time spent in Paris. (Previously: Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6.) Paris, Tuesday July 21, 1936 We left Brussels this morning at eight for a short train ride to Paris. Our first view of Paris [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 12 Oct 2009
Days 26 and 27 of my grandmother’s 1936 trip to Europe, covering her time in the Netherlands and Brussels. (Previously: Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.) Hague July 19, 1936 Sun. Landed this morning at 6 and went to our hotel (Du Passage) for breakfast. Then started on a sight [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 04 Oct 2009
Days 18 through 25 of my grandmother’s 1936 trip to Europe, covering the rest of her time in London and her trip to Stratford on Avon. (Previously: Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.) [London] Saturday Eve, July 11 [1936] Our trains got in this afternoon about 3:45 and by the time we [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 02 Oct 2009
Days 12 through 18 of my grandmother’s 1936 trip to Europe, covering time spent traveling in and around London and Torquay. (Previously: Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.) London Sunday, July 5 [1936] We started out about 10 this morning to see the changing of the guards but realized it was too late for [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 30 Sep 2009
Days 10 and 11 of my grandmother’s 1936 trip to Europe, covering the time she spent in Scotland. The combination of my grandmother’s handwriting being difficult, her spelling being frequently eccentric, and my own unfamiliarity with the proper nouns made these entries hard to transcribe. I think I managed to figure out all the places [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 29 Sep 2009
Days 6 through 9 of my grandmother’s 1936 cruise. Previously: Introduction, Part 1. S.S Duchess of Atholl Monday, June 29th [1936] This is the first bad day we have had since we’ve been abroad. The weather has been cold and foggy with quite a ghastly green choppy ocean. No one looks particularly chipper today and [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 29 Sep 2009
The first five days of my grandmother’s 1936 cruise abroad. I’m correcting minor spelling/writing errors, unless I think they are interesting. (For background information, read the introduction.) Michigan Central Train June 24, ’36 After a glorious send off by the Froehlichs, Newmans and my folks we left the 12th street station at 10:30 A.M. on [...]
Blog Eugene Fischer | 28 Sep 2009
My parents recently reorganized their library, and while they were doing so they discovered my maternal grandmother’s diary from a trip abroad she took in 1936, at the age of 22. I knew my grandmother (whom I called “grandma”) as Doris Stein, but when she took this trip she was Doris C. Kaufmann. She wrote [...]
