Opal Ashcraft 'Pal Book'   Save
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Description: This pal book is in a black three-ring binder with lined pages full of journal entries, colored pencil drawings, black and white snapshots, clippings, bird feathers and pressed flowers. It was written from December 1949 to December 1950 by Opal Ashcraft. She kept the book for her birding pal, Arlene Kunkel of Knox County. Opal Ashcraft's diary entries tell of her family, farm, friends, community, books, area bird sightings, and nature observations. A list of 118 birds seen in 1950 appears in the beginning of the book. The book measures 9.24" x 7" (23 x 18 cm). Opal Ashcraft was born in Indiana on December 19, 1890. She and her husband Harvey Leonard Ashcraft lived on a farm in Fort Recovery, Mercer County, Ohio, where they raised two sons, Garth and Duane. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3524_6642591_001
Subjects: Ohio Women; Daily Life; Plants and Animals; Literary Ohio; Bird watching
Places: Fort Recovery (Ohio); Mercer County (Ohio)