Family donates 116-year-old diary to historical society

A page from Adele Quinette's diary at Missouri Historical Society and Research Center in St. Louis on Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. Adele Quinette's six grandchildren decided to donate her diary documenting her experience at the 1904 World's Fair to the Missouri Historical Society. Adele wrote the diary when she was 16, and this is the first World's Fair diary to be donated to the Missouri Historical Society since 1996. (Cheyenne Boone/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS)

ST. LOUIS _ Stephen Phelps calls it the "family bible," the "holy grail" that has survived 116 years and three generations of family members. But now the family bible, a 132-page diary of the 1904 World's Fair written by Phelps' grandmother, Adele Quinette, has found a new home.

Last Monday, the Phelps family parted ways with the keepsake journal, and donated it to the Missouri Historical Society.