Datebook 1919: Tuesday, June 24, 1919

Beautiful bright day. Breakfast at Perkins. Up 7:30 A.M. Commencement exercises at 10 A.M. Fine address etc. Drove to Ogdensburg. In Canada for 15 minutes at Prescott. Sat around at night. To bed 12 P.M.

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I'm curious about the place called Perkins where they had breakfast. Is it a restaurant or cafe? John and I established it is not the Perkins restaurant we have now. But I couldn't find it, so I'll have to continue to wonder.

Ruth's commencement was held in the auditorium of the brand new Potsdam Normal School building that had at the time not yet been opened for classes. (It would be in the fall.) Below is a picture of the auditorium, and the building it was in.

Both pictures came from the book State University of New York at Potsdam, published in 2011.

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

Tuesday, June 24, 1919

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