Datebook 1919: Saturday, October 18, 1919

Beautiful bright ideal fall day. To college 9 to 11 A.M. Chored around. To Albany to Epworth League district convention with auto. Merlin Finch, Dorothea Reynolds, Hanford Closson, Dorothy Gallup, Me and Doris Smith, Ruth, Wilber Hayes went. Out to Buekendaal, Rotterdam etc. Good conference. To bed 12 bells. Thankful.

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Beukendaal, NY is a hamlet within the Schenectady area. It's northwest of Schenectady, on the way to Glenville on Sacandaga Road. Left is a map that shows the Volunteer Fire Department for Beukendaal; the village center was at the spot marked with an "A" on the map.

Beukendaal was the site of a famous battle in 1748 between the settlers and the French and Indians. It is considered to be the only battle of King George's War, according to an interesting article detailing the event at the Schenectady History website, Schenectady Digital History Archive.

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

Saturday, October 18, 1919

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