Datebook 1923: Tuesday, January 2, 1923

Overcast and cooler. Some snow in P.M. Arose 9 A.M. Breakfast etc. Read. Studied etc. Dinner. Nap. Helped put house to rights. To visit Ruth Pettit in evening at 1 Sunnyside Road, Scotia. Pleasant evening. To bed 12:30 P.M. Thankful for friends.

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A photograph of the house Stanford visited is below, as it appears today. It's not clear if Ruth lived there in 1923, but it's possible.

As a reminder, Ruth Pettit was one of Stanford's girl friends. Information about her can be found in this 1922 blog post: March 19.

Taken from Google Street View

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, cousin, nephew and friend. This is the fifth installment of Date Book, covering 1923 (the first four cover 1919-1922). For as long as seems practical, I will record subsequent years (they continue into the 1970s). I'm matching the days--January 1, 1923 to January 1, 2017, 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 is living in Boston, attending Boston University School of Theology, 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 1923

Tuesday, January 2, 1923

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