Datebook 1920: Saturday, January 17, 1920

Cold blustery day with about 6" of snow. Arose 7:30 A.M. To college 9 to 11 A.M. Got haircut, cleaned walk etc. Candled eggs, studied, jacked up hudson etc. To library. To basketball game. Union 45-Wesleyan 16. Down to church after money. Bowled at star. To bed 12:15 A.M.

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Busy day for a Saturday! I'm not sure what "jacked up hudson" means. If he jacked up the Hudson, what was the reason? He doesn't say.

Another basketball game, another victory. It seems their basketball team is better than their football team.

I'm also puzzled by the sentence "Down to church after money." Cryptic messages . . .

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, son and friend. This is the second installment of Date Book, covering 1920 (the first covers 1919). For as long as seems practical, I will record subsequent years (they continue into the 1970s). I'm matching the days--January 1, 1920 to January 1, 2014, for instance--with one entry per day. So it will take a year to transcribe this second 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 1920 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 1920

Saturday, January 17, 1920

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