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Adelia M. Hoyt memoir and photographs
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RETIREMENT One should prepare for retirement just as one makes ready for a career -- but few are wise enough to do so. I had known for two years when I would retire but I obstinately put it out of my mind. It did not seem possible that I could ever be separated from the work I loved so dearly. Then at last, I began looking forward to laying down what had become something of a burden. When the day came I was only too glad to retire and enjoy what many spoke of as "a well earned rest" At home I found it quite different from the days when I had been the homemaker. We had employed a housekeeper for several years. Sometime before I retired Mrs. Edith Darr had found our housework too much for her and we had engaged a Mrs. Emma Clokey to take her place, but Mrs. Darr stayed on as a paying guest at a nominal price. Since her retirement, Emma had planned and directed affairs at home so it was no longer necessary for me to do anything about the house. I was now at liberty to indulge my fancy and spend my time in any way i chose. For the first few weeks I thoroughly enjoyed my freedom from responsibility and the strain of going back and forth to work each day. I slept long hours and relaxed on the front porch. To complete my rest period Emma and I went to Atlantic City for a week in June of 1938. We had made it a practice to visit this resort at least once a year for rest and relaxation. We always stayed at our favorite hotel and even had the same room. We had both come to love the ocean; we enjoyed the piers; the boardwalk with its many shops; the rides in the wheeled chairs. We also liked to lie in the beach chairs down on the sand and listen to the waves as they rolled in and broke upon the shore. I think we both realized that this might be our last visit to Atlantic City, and so it proved. I returned home rested and refreshed, and ready to take up the 95
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RETIREMENT One should prepare for retirement just as one makes ready for a career -- but few are wise enough to do so. I had known for two years when I would retire but I obstinately put it out of my mind. It did not seem possible that I could ever be separated from the work I loved so dearly. Then at last, I began looking forward to laying down what had become something of a burden. When the day came I was only too glad to retire and enjoy what many spoke of as "a well earned rest" At home I found it quite different from the days when I had been the homemaker. We had employed a housekeeper for several years. Sometime before I retired Mrs. Edith Darr had found our housework too much for her and we had engaged a Mrs. Emma Clokey to take her place, but Mrs. Darr stayed on as a paying guest at a nominal price. Since her retirement, Emma had planned and directed affairs at home so it was no longer necessary for me to do anything about the house. I was now at liberty to indulge my fancy and spend my time in any way i chose. For the first few weeks I thoroughly enjoyed my freedom from responsibility and the strain of going back and forth to work each day. I slept long hours and relaxed on the front porch. To complete my rest period Emma and I went to Atlantic City for a week in June of 1938. We had made it a practice to visit this resort at least once a year for rest and relaxation. We always stayed at our favorite hotel and even had the same room. We had both come to love the ocean; we enjoyed the piers; the boardwalk with its many shops; the rides in the wheeled chairs. We also liked to lie in the beach chairs down on the sand and listen to the waves as they rolled in and broke upon the shore. I think we both realized that this might be our last visit to Atlantic City, and so it proved. I returned home rested and refreshed, and ready to take up the 95
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