BarryBobPosthole
01-30-2018, 02:23 PM
Any of you ever keep a journal? I attempted to keep just a fishing journal last year and made it only through January. I took a Creative Writing class once that required us to keep one and I lasted exactly the semester.
I have copies of several pages of one of the many volumes of journals kept by my great grandfather. He came to Arkansas in the 1870s and was a farmer and doctor. From the stories i’ve been told of him, he apprenticed under a doctor to earn his title. I have a copy of his recertification in Scott county Arkansas in 1920. He’d have been an old man then.
The journals don’t give much insight of what kind of person he was. Mainly the daily entries log the weather description and might refer to doctoring on somebody and what he recieved in payment. Hogs, corn, and so forth were common. Since he also recorded debts people owed I have always wondered if he looked at his journals more as proof of those debts since he only recorded a minimal amout of data. But that data might lend credibility to the debt information in court.
Anyway, I am giving it a try again this year. I will also log the weather and the fish sizes and numbers carefully when Larke and I fish again. That should help straighten a few things out in the future.
BKB
I have copies of several pages of one of the many volumes of journals kept by my great grandfather. He came to Arkansas in the 1870s and was a farmer and doctor. From the stories i’ve been told of him, he apprenticed under a doctor to earn his title. I have a copy of his recertification in Scott county Arkansas in 1920. He’d have been an old man then.
The journals don’t give much insight of what kind of person he was. Mainly the daily entries log the weather description and might refer to doctoring on somebody and what he recieved in payment. Hogs, corn, and so forth were common. Since he also recorded debts people owed I have always wondered if he looked at his journals more as proof of those debts since he only recorded a minimal amout of data. But that data might lend credibility to the debt information in court.
Anyway, I am giving it a try again this year. I will also log the weather and the fish sizes and numbers carefully when Larke and I fish again. That should help straighten a few things out in the future.
BKB