Datebook 1919: Tuesday, August 26, 1919

Beautiful cool day. Arose at 5 bells and started to work at 6. Shovelled gravel in pit at Woodruffs on Saratoga road. Home 6 P.M. Played tennis. Read etc. To bed 9:30 P.M.

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I have been unable to locate any information about a gravel pit that was operating in 1919 on Saratoga Road, although I did learn that gravel mining was and still is very common in that region due to the amount of glacial material deposited there.

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

Tuesday, August 26, 1919

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