Datebook 1919: Friday, August 22, 1919

Beautiful bright cool day. Worked on road. Shovelled gravel. 6 teams 48 loads.
Small layer of gravel over top of road from Schlensker's to county line. Played tennis. Florence and Ruth Lavery here. Ella and Lena Glindmyer spent evening here.

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Lena Glindmyer was mentioned in the August 10 post. I couldn't quite read Stanford's writing then and thought maybe Glind was Lena's middle name. Now that I have the right spelling, however, I can possibly find out something about Lena and Ella. But I haven't had any luck so far. Maybe later.

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, August 22, 1919

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