Datebook 1920: Sunday, May 9, 1920

MOTHER'S DAY

Beautiful warm day. Few sprinkles at nite. Arose 9 A.M. Took bath etc. To Broadway M. E. Church in A.M. To S.S. at First M.E. Dinner. Did dishes. Took walk to Aqueduct with H.H. and Russell. To Epworth League. Rode with D.S.R. to Aunts. At church with gang. To bed 11:30 P.X.

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Mother's Day, but Stanford didn't spend it with his mother, apparently. In fact, there are not many occasions when Stanford spent time with his mother, at least none he mentions in his diaries. Maybe boys didn't do that back then. At least he did the dishes!

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, May 9, 1920

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