The diary entries in this blog were made by Wayne Kesler Milne originally as an
English assignment his junior year at Hammond High School in 1933. After the
assignment, he continued to write in his diary for a bit. After Wayne died in
2013, the diary was found in the basement with many other memories of his life.
I transcribed the diary as close to his original spellings and grammar as
possible. My comments are added in italics and usually in brackets [...].
Mary Milne Sell,
Wayne's daughter - #4 of his and Nancy Harbert
Milne's 6 children
Background: At the time Wayne
wrote the diary, he was attending high school and living with his family at 835
Drackert Street in Hammond, Indiana. The photo below of the Milne family is dated 1935. Left to right: Lester, Wayne, Eva,
Donna in front. Wayne refers to his sister Donna as "Dona Jean"
throughout the diary. Oh the regrets of not finding this before he died – so many
questions he could have answered!
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