Datebook 1919: Janus, the God of Doorways

Janus, God of Doorways

Looking forward, Looking back. That is a new year's tradition. And so it will be for this blog. Stanford has arrived at the end of 1919, but because I started this blog in May, I am now going back to January 1919 to complete the diary for this year.

But for those of you who are wondering how Stanford will fare in 1920, I've created a new blog, Date Book 1920, where we will go forward, looking over Stanford Closson's shoulder as he continues to describe for us his daily life in early twentieth-century Schenectady, New York.

Join me 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

Janus, the God of Doorways

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