Tuesday, May 8, 1934

After school today Daddy came by and we went to Sears Roebuck and got me a pair of shoes. Black oxfords.

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder (February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957)

After settling with her husband and family on a farm in the Missouri Ozarks,
Wilder began writing a colum "As a Farm Woman Thinks" for the Missouri
Realist. In 1930, Wilder asked her daughter Rose for an opinion about a book
she had written - a biographical manuscript about her pioneering childhood later
titled Little House in the Big Woods. In 1932, this became her first published
book. By the time she finished her last one, These Happy Golden Years, some
11 years later, she had become one of America's best-loved children's authors.
Her books went on to become t he inspiration for a popular telelvision series
based on the series, Little House on the Prairie.

Laura Ingalls Wilder is buried with her husband and daughter Rose in the
town cemetery in Mansfield, Missouri.

Monday, May 8, 1933

Went in swimming. Today was report cards. I got S in Math, English and Expression, and I got M in Civics and General Science.

On May 8, 1933, Harold Ickes, Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of the Interior,
decided that the name of this dam should be "Boulder Dam." Construction started
in 1931 on the concrete gravity-arch dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River,
on the border between the U.S. states of  Arizona and Nevada, and it was opened in 1936.
In 1947 a resolution naming it Hoover Dam was passed by Congress and signed by President Truman.