Datebook 1919: Thursday, June 19, 1919

Beautiful bright mild day. Candled most all day. Uncle Henry here. Out riding at night to Rotterdam etc. Beautiful ride. Light refreshment at 10 P.M. Thankful.

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Rotterdam is a nearby town about 3 miles from the Closson residence. I wonder if they all went, taking Uncle Henry with them . . .

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, June 19, 1919

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