Bright, cool, clear, still day. Arose 7:45 A.M. Shoveled walk, yard and alley. Fixed up & shipped egg cases. Chored around. Russell, Clifford & I went skating on Pleasant Valley. Light refreshments at his house. To bed 11:30 P.M.
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So, Stanford is shipping eggs and probably used a container like the one shown on the left (mentioned in an earlier post).
Clifford is Marion Benedict's brother. He was first mentioned in the 1919 diary, at this post. He was five years younger than Marion, and apparently lived all his life in the Schenectady area. In 1930 he worked as a car salesman, but by 1940 he was listed as a "new worker." At that time he was 33 and still living at home, unmarried. He died in 1977 at the age of 70, about a year after Marion.
By Pleasant Valley, Stanford may have meant Pleasant Valley Park. Below are two pictures of the park. The top photo is early, showing, as it says, the Brandywine Mill Creek where Stanford and his friends may have been skating. The bottom photo shows the same park years later, when a road cut through the peaceful setting. Later still, that road became the interstate (I-890) pictured in the modern satellite photo.
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| Taken from Images of America: Schenectady, Ed. Susan Rosenthal |
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| Taken from Google Maps |
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