Nina Winn Wiki
NOTE: This wiki is very much a work-in-progress. It will be updated frequently during 2022. For “questions that it doesn’t answer,” a search of the archives of the Arlington List (arlingtonlist.org) will provide information that has been added as footnotes to diary entries published in that forum.
Introduction
This Nina Winn “wiki” is being developed as a reader’s guide to the transcribed entries of the Nina Winn diaries that are posted to the Arlington List email group (arlingtonlist.org). The initial goal is to provide a convenient resource to follow the current narrative in the diaries as it moves forward. This “read along” approach avoids creating “spoilers” by omitting information (example: dates of deaths that have not yet occurred) that would interfere with the simulated real-time presentation of the historical material. Check back from time to time to see additions to this wiki, such as photographs, maps, and other images, as well as additions to the cast of characters as persons with major storylines are added to the canvas of Nina Winn’s life.
Within the previous two years, Nina has taken it from an old-fashioned dwelling, with no utilities except for water and cooking gas, and transformed it with modern features such as central heating, hot water, an indoor bathroom, a telephone, and electricity. Nina was not a high school graduate and did not work outside of the home until she was nearly 40 years old, beginning as a part-time library assistant at Robbins Library. She has progressed in recent years to full-time roles of increasing responsibilities in the Somerville, Waltham, and Framingham public libraries. Due to the long commuting times via public transportation (typically two or more hours each way), Nina rents a room in Framingham. Nina spends most of her free time with friends she met in 1923 in Waltham: Hilda Olsen, Martha “Dickie” Drake, and Marjorie Warren.
Wiki Sections
This wiki includes these sections:
- Plot synopsis as of 1925
- Cast of characters
- Backstory (in development)
- Links to images
- History of the diary transcriptions 2000 – 2022
For more information, visit these sites:
https://arlingtonhistorical.org/tag/nina-winn/
https://arlingtonhistorical.org/nina-louise-winn/
https://arlingtonhistorical.org/knowing-susanna-adams-winn/
