Tag: Eleanor Gilberts

• Mom’s Big Adventure: A Road Trip to California in 1934

  On August 19, 1934, in the heart of the Great Depression, three girlfriends started out on a road trip to California – Elsie Kenseth (my mom), Clarice Jarlsberg, and Eleanor Gilberts – three single young women in their mid-twenties who had grown up together in Cambridge. Within a couple years they would all be married…

  Marian

  June 23, 2015

  God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

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