Datebook 1919: Thursday, March 13, 1919

Very cloudy. Mild. Nellie started for N.Y. with city car. In A.M. studied. Uncle John to dinner. 2 to 5 P.M. Geology exam. Down town. Bowled. Home in evening. Studied. To bed 9:30. Thank God for food, clothing, shelter, parents and education. TURNED MUCH COLDER.

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I think Union College is on the quarter system, which would explain his having to take all these exams.

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

Thursday, March 13, 1919

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