Datebook 1919: Thursday, August 21, 1919

Beautiful fair day. Worked on road. Shovelled gravel in pit on Charlton road. 6 teams 41 loads. Took ride in evening. Over to Uncle Johns. Got ice cream at Opdycke's and Wilson's.

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The Opdyckes owned a store, apparently, at least according to the 1925 New York census. Here is an excerpt that shows them living on Saratoga Road in Glenville:

Henry Opdyke is 68; his wife, Hattie, is 52. Hattie Jr., their daughter, is 22 and they have a 13-year-old daughter, Maxine. All these folks would have been six years younger in 1919.

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, August 21, 1919

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