Professor Hamilton's Diary: Nov. 28, 1935

I've heard of worrying about the oven being left on, but this story takes the cake!

It was Thanksgiving day in 1935, just as it is 2024, and Professor Hamilton was working around the house this morning waiting for Margaret’s parents to arrive. They pulled in about noon and the family sat down to dinner at 3:00.

“Father became worried about his furnace fire in Bronxville — whether he had fixed it properly,” Professor Hamilton wrote. “We …