Datebook 1919: Sunday, May 25, 1919

Rain at morning and night. Overcast during day. Arose at 10 A.M. To church late and S.S. Y.M.C.A. day. Prepared E.L [Epworth League] topic. Led meeting at night. To Hayes' room at night with E.L. Young. To bed 10:30 P.M.

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Interesting--I wonder what Stanford's topic was?

About this blog . . .

I've created this blog to make a record of the hand-written journals of Stanford Stillman Closson (1900-1982), who was in his life a Methodist Minister, grandfather, father, brother, husband and son. I'm starting with the first one, written in 1919, but I plan to record subsequent years (they continue into the 1970s). I'm matching the days--May 5, 1919 to May 5, 2013, for instance--with one entry per day. So it will take a year to get through the first diary.

The daily entries are pretty short, though, so in addition to recording the diaries, I'm also annotating them, giving additional information about the people, places and events mentioned by Stanford. By doing this, I hope to convey a sense of 1919 Schenectady, New York and the people Stanford interacted with. Of course, I'm also hoping to give Stanford's descendants a fuller picture of who he was as a young man.

Datebook 1919

Sunday, May 25, 1919

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