Lawrence Cantwell reads from a diary and other papers written by Levida Pilkington Griffths. He thinks they were written in 1917. Levida documents when she was young, moving to a new home, and taking care of her younger sister, Eva. She recalls Eva's birth and of a wind and hail storm. She tells of her brother, Ed, and cousin, Leland. She writes of her bout with diphtheria.