Datebook 1919: Sunday, February 2, 1919

Ground Hog day. Sun shone bright all day. Cold. Bright & Windy. To Church & S.S. In P.M. walked with H.H. and Lewis Larkin. To Epworth League. Home. To bed 9:30. Thank God for peace, a dry nation, parents, food, clothing, shelter etc. Scarcely any snow on ground.

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Groundhog Day is apparently a very old holiday, also known as Candlemas. This website gives some of its history: Groundhog Day.

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

Sunday, February 2, 1919

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