Datebook 1919: Friday, June 27, 1919

Cloudy with rain in middle of day. To country place to work in garden. Place looks fine. Quite a hard rain. Greased Hudson and Ford. Up to Merris's and around town. To bed 11:10 P.M. Thankful for health, education etc.

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I guess after their few days away, Stanford (and maybe his father) had to check the country place and catch up on the gardening.

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

Friday, June 27, 1919

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