Datebook 1919: Monday, June 30, 1919

Up 8:00 A.M. Beautiful bright hot day. Chored around and played tennis in A.M. Cleaned the carbon out of Ford etc. Went down town. Everybody drunk. To bed 12 P.M.

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More car maintenance for Stanford. I'm very curious about his statement that "everybody" was "drunk" down town. I wonder why? Was this an early 4th of July celebration? Is that the usual state of affairs for Schenectady on a Monday night? One can only speculate.

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

Monday, June 30, 1919

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