Datebook 1922: Wednesday, February 8, 1922

Beautiful, bright day but cold & windy. Arose 9 A.M. Breakfast etc. Delivered eggs. Dinner. Wrote in diary. Errands and odd jobs. To High School for typewriting. To Public Library. Home. Talked. To bed 10:15 P.M.

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Stanford is probably going to Schenectady High School for his typing class, the school he graduated from in 1917. Below is a photo of the school with description, taken from the book Images of America: Schenectady, and a post card photo showing the two buildings, taken from the Grems-Doolittle Library blog.

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

Wednesday, February 8, 1922

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