Datebook 1922: Saturday, December 23, 1922

Bright, mild and wet. Arose 8 A.M. Breakfast. H.H. to Albany with Kissel. Out with Father on business. Tried on suit. Dinner. Put up and trimmed Xmas tree etc. Down street with H.H. Talked. Got trunk etc. Shower at Y. Unpacked. To bed 12 P.M.

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Stanford's suit is for the wedding coming up after Christmas: Mark & Ruth's.

Below is a picture from a Christmas card of 1922 showing a tree. Notice they still had candles to light the tree with.

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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

Saturday, December 23, 1922

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