Genevieve Spencer

 

This is the story of a young lady who was a farm girl keeping a twitter-like diary in the 1930’s.  David Griner, her great-nephew, is tweeting her ‘line-a-day diary’ at @Genny_Spencer.  Most of the entries are pretty dry and sound almost monotonous yet taken altogether they have a sense of mystery.  As David states at his blog:

Late last year, my family found a line-a-day diary maintained by my great-aunt from 1937 to 1941. She was in her early teens, living on a small farm in rural Illinois with her two brothers, one of which was my grandfather.

It’s a fascinating account More >