Datebook 1919: Thursday, October 16, 1919

Overcast with rain at intervals during day. To College 8 to 12 M. Studied. To College library. Down town. Bowled at Morse. Home. Candled eggs. Chored around. Took bath etc. To bed 10 P.M.

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Here is picture of the Nott Memorial, Union College, which was apparently also used as the library for a time. This image is taken from a 1919 postcard that is for sale on amazon.com:

Here is another image of what the photographer calls "Library Lane," from a postcard sent in 1911. This postcard is taken from the Union College website as part of the Schaffer Library postcard collection:

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, October 16, 1919

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