Datebook 1922: Tuesday, March 28, 1922

Very mild damp day with some rain in A.M. Arose 7:45 A.M. Cleaned up cellar, soot out of chimney etc. Got ready and shipped 100 empty egg cases to Trombley Bros. Supper. To College with Ruth Pettit to Minstrel Show. Very good. To bed 12 P.M.

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The minstrel show was no doubt put on by the college students. Some of the Union students claimed "minstrel show" as an extra-curricular activity in their yearbook entries. No indication if it was a black-face minstrel, but it probably was. Stanford actually expressed an opinion of this show!

I couldn't determine why Stanford was shipping empty egg cases to Trombley Brothers, but it must be that they got money back on them since they were not using them at the time, maybe because the season was over?

I hope Stanford was careful around that soot. It was a dangerous substance!

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 fourth installment of Date Book, covering 1922 (the first three cover 1919-1921). For as long as seems practical, I will record subsequent years (they continue into the 1970s). I'm matching the days--January 1, 1922 to January 1, 2016, for instance--with one entry per day.

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.

And this year, because Stanford moves to Boston when he starts his graduate program at Boston University, I will be adding information about early 1920s Boston as well as Schenectady.

Through these annotations, I hope to convey a sense of Stanford's life and times. And of course, I'm also hoping to give his descendants a fuller picture of who he was as a young man.

Datebook 1922

Tuesday, March 28, 1922

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