Datebook 1919: Saturday, December 6, 1919

Cool fall day. Some snow in P.M. To college 10-11 A.M. Studied for exam. Condition exam in 3rd term English at 2 P.M. Down street. Down to Y with D.W.S. to bowl. All alleys full. Fooled around. To bed 11 P.M.

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So, he didn't bowl with Doris because the alleys were full. Then, he says, he (or perhaps they) "fooled around." I'm starting to get suspicious of this activity . . .

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.

Saturday, December 6, 1919

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