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April 1
Laura M., age 16, North Carolina
April 1, 1998
Stayed in the cafeteria and it SUCKED. I really hate it. Went home with Ash 4 a bit. We watched the story and I talked 2 Jon. Packed. Went 2 Dad’s. Ate. Did homework. Showered. Talked 2 Jon. Talked 2 Ash. Did homework.
Laura M., age 15, North Carolina
April 1, 1997
Got up at 7:00 and Brittany took me home. Fell asleep on the couch till 11:00/12. Ate spaghetti for lunch. Cleaned. Renee came over and we kicked a sign and the guy followed us and told Mom. She ate dinner with us! Showered. Talked.
Anna L., age 75, Illinois
April 1, 1960
Cloudy all day and became very windy. Mrs. B. called early having her hair done so wouldn’t get together. I called Edna for her as she was to be at her table. Did some cleaning, Lo stayed down and ate with Ann Pat. I cleaned up Lo’s car. It was so dirty again, won’t do much good as it was in the mud again and rained some. After getting back from cabin Lo went down town.
Marcy S., age 19, Missouri
April 1, 1944
April Fool!! Beautiful day again! Woke up at 7 and saw sun just coming up. Still milder but not warm enough. Betty made me mad - she just couldn’t put Arrowsmith down - wouldn’t even go to brunch. I went at 11 - another big meal! Life magazine came. In afternoon we went to library again and to town. Lovely afternoon. Got ice cream sodas and went around looking at dresses. Betty and I got in each other’s hair something awful!! :) Getting bored - all this beautiful time that we’ve been longing for and now we’re bored!! Back for census at 5. Good dinner at 5:30. Had awful restless feeling - am so tired of being just little me - no excitement, no dates, no nothing! Always preparing for life - never living it! (Betty and I are agreed that this is another fault of present education system.) To calm myself I typed a story for Betty. Then read And Tell of Time. Pretty good. Ironed and to bed.
Marcy S., age 16, Tennessee
April 1, 1941
Nice, warmer. Mary not at school. So dull. Class meeting in morning to decide about place of banquet. Some discussion -- rather heated. Coming out of history, G.L. embarrassed me -- right in front of Bunny -- said, “I think Earl has just about got up the courage to ask you to the banquet.” In typing, Marg. and I did letter guides. Fun. Walked with Ruth after school. Lucky Helen went to the show. Mother had Legion Auxiliary meeting. After music lesson, I played my two pieces after refreshments. They all raved. I nearly got sick eating so much. In glorious mood. Sunshine and flowers and warm breezes everywhere. When the last dog had been hung, I played the piano. At 6:30 Mrs. C. came by and we drove over to school and practice. Dorothy wasn’t there, so I took her part in first act. G.L. said I’d make a good Carrie. Mrs. C. said I could really take any part. Home at 8:30. No one there. Went to Clure’s and read magazine and helped her. Mom and Dad home about 9:00 and 9:30. Mom saw Mickey Rooney in “Andy Hardy’s Private Secretary” -- wonderful.
Henry S., age 26, Michigan
April 1, 1888
This is my Kate’s birthday, but she is far from me and I cannot pet her any. I shall be glad when I get home where she and Una are. Wrote a letter before breakfast. Went to church this forenoon, and then went home with Fred Neill and spent the afternoon there. It is quite mild weather.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Henry S., age 25, Michigan
April 1, 1887
It has been a fine day, thawing quite a good deal. It was Kate’s birthday and I wish I could have seen her and the baby. I went up to the store this morning and posed up the books and took a trial balance of the Ledger. I did a considerable other writing also. After school I made out the telegraph reports for the month of March. I sent a telegram today noon to Frankfort and made no mistakes. I received a letter from ma tonight saying all were doing well and that our little girl was very sweet. I shall get awfully puffed up. I was quite late in getting through my work tonight and I feel real tired. Will go to bed early.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Cornelia H., age 25, North Carolina
April 1, 1862
Charlie ploughed down one side of the walk. Atheline & I worked in the yard all day turfing around the piazza. E. Night & Guy began to put up the hen house yesterday. I was very tired at night. Pleasant & fair.
*(Fear in North Carolina: The Civil War Journals and Letters of the Henry Family, Eds. Karen L. Clinard and Richard Russell, used with permission.)
Samuel P., age 35, London
April 1, 1668
Up, and to dress myself, and call as I use Deb. to brush and dress me …, and I to my office, where busy till noon, and then out to bespeak some things against my wife’s going into the country to-morrow, and so home to dinner, my wife and I alone, she being mighty busy getting her things ready for her journey, I all the afternoon with her looking after things on the same account, and then in the afternoon out and all alone to the King’s house, and there sat in an upper box, to hide myself, and saw “The Black Prince,” a very good play; but only the fancy, most of it, the same as in the rest of my Lord Orrery’s plays; but the dance very stately; but it was pretty to see how coming after dinner and with no company with me to talk to, and at a play that I had seen, and went to now not for curiosity but only idleness, I did fall asleep the former part of the play, but afterward did mind it and like it very well. Thence called at my bookseller’s, and took Mr. Boyle’s Book of Formes, newly reprinted, and sent my brother my old one. So home, and there to my chamber till anon comes Mr. Turner and his wife and daughter, and Pelling, to sup with us and talk of my wife’s journey to-morrow, her daughter going with my wife; and after supper to talk with her husband about the Office, and his place, which, by Sir J. Minnes’s age and inability, is very uncomfortable to him, as well as without profit, or certainty what he shall do, when Sir J. Minnes dies, which is a sad condition for a man that hath lived so long in the Office as Mr. Turner hath done. But he aymes, and I advise him to it, to look for Mr. Ackworth’s place, in case he should be removed. His wife afterwards did take me into my closet, and give me a cellar of waters of her own distilling for my father, to be carried down with my wife and her daughter to-morrow, which was very handsome. So broke up and to bed.
*(The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S., edited by Henry B. Wheatley F.S.A., London, George Bell & Sons York St. Covent Garden, Cambridge Deighton Bell & Co., 1893.)
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