Datebook 1923: Monday, May 28, 1923

Beautiful, bright and mild. Arose 8 A.M. Breakfast & family worship. Hair cut. Down street with H.H Odds and ends, errands etc. Bought pup-tent etc. Supper. Father and I to country place, then to Scotia cemetery to decorate graves. Home. Talked etc. Letter to Merlin J. Finch.

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They're getting ready for the trip out west, I see. Stanford bought a pup-tent to sleep in during their journey.

And I see he's still friends with Merlin Finch.

Decoration Day (on which people placed flowers on the graves of the deceased) was not as formal back then, I think, and was not yet called Memorial Day.

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

Monday, May 28, 1923

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