Scope and Content Note From the Collection: This collection consists of a diary maintained by Olivia Tutwiler (later Olivia Tutwiler Hill), a young teacher living in Blacksburg and Childress, Virginia, during the first two months of 1919. The diary begins with January 1, finding Tutwiler in Blacksburg, perhaps during her school's winter break, living at home with her parents. The diary entries are overwhelmingly concerned with Tutwiler's crush on an unidentified cadet at the nearby Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and the entries are...

Abstract

Diary of Olivia Tutwiler (later Olivia Tutwiler Hill), a young teacher living in Blacksburg and Childress, Virginia, in 1919. The focus is primarily on a crush that Tutwiler had on a Virginia Tech cadet, but entries also chronicle an active social life.