Datebook 1919: Thursday, August 28, 1919

Overcast day with little rain in afternoon. Family to Ballston Fair. Mr. Schlenkser and Ira Larkin went along. Also Clara Lavery. Good fair and large crowd. Home 5:30 P.M. Played tennis. All called on Glindmyers in evening. To bed 10:30 P.M.

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I couldn't find Ira Larkin and don't know if he's related to Lewis Larkin, mentioned in an earlier post.

The Ballston Fair is the Saratoga County Fair held in Ballston Spa, NY. Here is a newspaper ad for the fair that appeared in the Ballston Spa Daily Journal, August 21, 1919:

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

Thursday, August 28, 1919

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