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7/7/06
Mechanics (Sibley's's half holiday begin) and then came home a little while ( Mother at Cro'nest) and started off again on "Diana" for the Park and certainly did have a nice afternoon. They had Automobile Gymkana shorts in the dell below the hill road - most picturesque - Tilting for scarfs & rugs - obstacle races - & a potatoe race (very funny) & balancing feats. And a fine polo game (that with ponies) It was an ideal afternoon lots of autos & people out, music, & a nice man next to me who was folksy. A young doctor-man was one of the star performers. It threatened a thunderstorm about 5 or so - so I went home & had a nice bath before supper - made lemon jelly, & lemonade, had supper & rode Diana again out to the illumination which was certainly surpassingly beautiful. 3000 lanterns, low among the bushes along the river - the bridge, boat houses, decks, boats &c all illuminated and a procession of 30 trimmed canoes (beside many others with lights) The pageant started "way up the river some where & came down the right bank to the Oak hill dock (red fire &c.) turned & came up the left back. There were also a number of

7/7/06
Mechanics (Sibley's's half holiday begin) and then came home a little while ( Mother at Cro'nest) and started off again on "Diana" for the Park and certainly did have a nice afternoon. They had Automobile Gymkana shorts in the dell below the hill road - most picturesque - Tilting for scarfs & rugs - obstacle races - & a potatoe race (very funny) & balancing feats. And a fine polo game (that with ponies) It was an ideal afternoon lots of autos & people out, music, & a nice man next to me who was folksy. A young doctor-man was one of the star performers. It threatened a thunderstorm about 5 or so - so I went home & had a nice bath before supper - made lemon jelly, & lemonade, had supper & rode Diana again out to the illumination which was certainly surpassingly beautiful. 3000 lanterns, low among the bushes along the river - the bridge, boat houses, decks, boats &c all illuminated and a procession of 30 trimmed canoes (beside many others with lights) The pageant started "way up the river some where & came down the right bank to the Oak hill dock (red fire &c.) turned & came up the left back. There were also a number of

7/7/06
Mechanics (Sibley's's half holiday begin) and then came home a little while ( Mother at Cro'nest) and started off again on "Diana" for the Park and certainly did have a nice afternoon. They had Automobile Gymkana shorts in the dell below the hill road - most picturesque - Tilting for scarfs & rugs - obstacle races - & a potatoe race (very funny) & balancing feats. And a fine polo game (that with ponies) It was an ideal afternoon lots of autos & people out, music, & a nice man next to me who was folksy. A young doctor-man was one of the star performers. It threatened a thunderstorm about 5 or so - so I went home & had a nice bath before supper - made lemon jelly, & lemonade, had supper & rode Diana again out to the illumination which was certainly surpassingly beautiful. 3000 lanterns, low among the bushes along the river - the bridge, boat houses, decks, boats &c all illuminated and a procession of 30 trimmed canoes (beside many others with lights) The pageant started "way up the river some where & came down the right bank to the Oak hill dock (red fire &c.) turned & came up the left back. There were also a number of
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