Datebook 1919: Sunday, June 22, 1919

Beautiful bright day. To Church and Sunday School. Read in P.M. Started for Potsdam 5 P.M. Mother, Father, H.H. and I. Drove 94 miles. Stayed at Holland Patent 12 miles north of Utica overnight. Fine place. To bed 10:30.

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The Clossons were going to Potsdam to visit Ruth at her college. It's 218 miles to Potsdam and 94 miles to Holland Patent, NY, so they went about half way to their destination the first day. I wonder how long it took them and where they stayed in Holland Patent. Did they stay in their car or in a hotel? There were a number of hotels in Utica and in Rome, NY (about 10 miles from Holland Patent) at the time, but none I could find in Holland Patent itself. Oh, well, another mystery.

Holland Patent is not a big town, even today. Below is a map showing its location (A) relative to Rome and Utica:

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, June 22, 1919

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