Datebook 1920: Sunday, March 28, 1920

TIME SET AHEAD 1 HOUR at 2 A.M. for NY STATE ONLY.

Beautiful bright mild day. Arose 8:30 A.M. Fooled around. Took bath etc. To S.S. Good attendance. Talked. Dinner. Took walk in P.M. Lew Larkin & H.H. Gang met at church. To city mission to lead meeting. To Epworth League. Walked around. Took D.S.R. home. >< >< >< To bed 11:15 P.M.

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Hmmm . . . lots of kisses from Dorothea!

I guess New York was one of the states doing Daylight Savings Time back then. It must have been strange for the trains those days--made the schedules crazy, I'll bet.

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

Sunday, March 28, 1920

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