Datebook 1919: Saturday, September 27, 1919

Beautiful bright mild day. To College. 7:45 to 12 M. Chored around. Took stuff for corn roast to Edison Club. To corn roast at Day's point Alplans. Fair time. Walked home by way of Scotia. To Van Curler with H.H. & Merlin Finch. To bed 11:15 P.M.

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The Edison Club was (and is) a country club outside of Albany in Rexford, NY. They have a website: Edison Club. It looks like a pretty fancy place. I wonder why Stanford was taking "stuff for corn roast" there?

I'm not sure what is meant by Day's point Alplans. I couldn't find any reference to it. Stanford may be misspelling Alplans--should it be Alplands?

Van Curler was perhaps a town or village near Schenectady; Van Curler is the man credited with founding Schenectady, so it is likely.

Merlin Finch reappears at last in the diary. I'm glad to see he and Stanford are still friends. Below is a picture of Merlin when he was young, shared with me by his grand-niece, Janet.

Merlin J. Finch, 1900-1989

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

Saturday, September 27, 1919

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