Datebook 1919: Tuesday, December 23, 1919

Mild nasty day. To College 9 to 12:15 M. Candled eggs and fooled around. Down town on Christmas Shopping. Wrote post cards etc. Down to Post Office with mail. To bed 10 P.M. Thankful for friends, health, opportunities etc.

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I wonder if Stanford was sending Christmas post cards? That's something people don't do much anymore--now we send actual cards in envelopes. Here is a picture of a Christmas postcard that was sent in 1919:

Bluebird of Happiness Postcard from 1919 - for sale on Etsy last year

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, December 23, 1919

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