Ithaca, New York
Saturday night, November 19, 1939
Dear Folks,
Would someone be able to meet me at Buckley's house, right across from the high school in Rhinebeck Wednesday night at nine o'clock? It is a brown house if I remember right, but anyone would know if you ask them. It is just a block or two before you get to the red light coming in from Pine Plains. We plan to leave here at noon Wednesday and will go around by Albany, so I want to allow plenty of time as it's only a '31 Chevy. If you should have to wait, which I hope you won't, I am sure the Buckley's wouldn't mind if you waited there.
I received Katie's and Aunt Dorothy's nice letters the beginning of the week. This morning I made up my lab for next Wednesday. It has been raining and snowing all day.
Last night I went up to the Straight and saw moving pictures in technicolor of the Cornell-Dartmouth game Saturday. Afterwards, I went to a lecture by a Russian woman social worker which was very good. Tonight the Coop is having another dance but I am not going as I am still having foot treatments, and besides I'm kind of tired and am working on a report.
If the weather is bad Wednesday, it may take us longer, but it shouldn't take us over nine hours unless we have car trouble. I don't look forward to these long rides too much, if it's cold, because I remember how I used to freeze last year, but maybe it will be nice.
This is about all I can think of now so will look forward to seeing everyone in about one day from the time you get this letter.
Lovingly, Hall
Gilbert Hall Flint was born August 14, 1918 and raised on Flint Hill Farm in Amenia, New York. His formal education began in a one-room schoolhouse in Smithfield. He graduated from Amenia High School in 1936 and from the Cornell University College of Agriculture in 1940. He taught high school agriculture from 1940 to 1944, served in the U.S. Army from 1944 to 1946, taught high school agriculture from 1946 to 1963, and finished his career as a school principal from 1963 to 1975.
Gilbert Hall Flint passed away on December 16, 2009. The letters are published in his memory. To view the letters in chronological order, please click a timeline label from the side bar menu, scroll to the bottom, and read up.
Gilbert Hall Flint passed away on December 16, 2009. The letters are published in his memory. To view the letters in chronological order, please click a timeline label from the side bar menu, scroll to the bottom, and read up.
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