April 3
Laura M., age 16, North Carolina
April 3, 1998
Went off with Zach, Justin, Casey, and Crozier. Mall. Failed a quiz or 2 in English. Took people home. Went 2 vet 2 get Lucy ’cause she’s sick. :( Showered. Went 2 Dad’s. Blowdried. Ate. Went 2 Jon’s. Played some guitar. Went 2 see “Titanic.” Met my dad. Took Jon home. Kissed him. It’s about fuckin’ time. In a good mood.
Laura M., age 15, North Carolina
April 3, 1997
Up at 11:00. Walked to Camp Canine. Stayed till 1:00. Em picked me up and we went to Jasper’s for lunch. It was GOOD! Came home and packed. Eddie picked me up. We picked up Renée and Courtney and went to Lake Jordan to go camping. We ate Subway and set up and looked at the comet and danced around the fire and ate smores and talked. It was really fun. Nikki came, too.
Anna L., age 75, Illinois
April 3, 1960
Lo didn’t sleep last nite. Picked Carrie up, went no. of Hebron to look at a place. Home to get dinner. Carrie came and ate there. Lo bathed and dressed. Took Carrie home and we drove to Beloit. Left at 3:00 up there at 4:00. Stayed two hours and home. Borrowed K.J.’s luggage told them we were flying to Fla. Surprised yes!!
Marcy S., age 19, Missouri
April 3, 1944
Up about 10:30. Bright, beautiful day but cool. Betty and I went to brunch at 11. Letter from Helen and check from Pap. Good breakfast. Voice lesson at 11:30. Got new piece. Read “Zeal of Thy House” before 2. Went to bank. About 2:30 Betty and I went to town and tried on dresses all afternoon. Found a pretty green and white flowered for office wear and a cute 2 piece navy sharkskin for Easter!! Betty approved of both! Back about 5 for census. Worn out! The Easter one has to be altered and won’t be ready ’til Thursday. Good dinner. Vacation almost over. After dinner Betty and I took our new pieces over to conservatory and practiced - she has a lovely one (“Song of Desire”) about the sea. We were going to go over to the library and listen to records but decided to go to bus station for rolls first. Played hall piano some - then to bus station only to find it closed. Out of mood for records then - got sandwiches at Tuck. Back to hall. Took bath. Mary Jo got back. Gave us some pineapple cookies!! Yummy! To bed early.
Marcy S., age 16, Tennessee
April 3, 1941
Lovely, cloudy, very windy and mild. At noon it was so lovely -- I just felt wonderful. And as I passed Mrs. Winslow’s garden and looked beyond at the swaying willow tree in its gown of bright green with the blue sky and white fleecy clouds in the background, I prayed that I would never forget it. At noon, Mom and I discussed college and practically decided on Rochester University. Letter from Mary S.
It seems so funny be writing in you again, Diary. I haven’t been doing it in ages. But now that Spring has come I need more room than my little diary offers, to describe the weather.
Henry S., age 26, Michigan
April 3, 1888
Have been invoicing at the store all day, and am going there this evening again. It was a cold job in the basement.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Henry S., age 25, Michigan
April 3, 1887
It sprinkled a little, this morning, but did not succeed in raining. It has kept warm and the snow is melting fast, but there is so much of it that it will take a good while for it to go off. Fred and I went to church this forenoon. I sang in the choir. Charlie and Grace were here to dinner and spent the afternoon. I went over to my house with Charlie, let him take my Locomotive book. I got some things I needed. I wrote a letter to Kate and one to ma today. Called on Fred Waters and wife just before dark. I think I will spend the most of tomorrow at the store. Am feeling real tired tonight so must go to rest early.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Cornelia H., age 25, North Carolina
April 3, 1862
At work on hen house. Old Mr. Boyd here helping. I forgot to say that I finished my pillow slip yesterday or nearly. Fannie scoured the room over mine upstairs yesterday. I had a very bad headache in the evening. Warm, looks like rain. It did rain late in the evening a little. We fixed the walk today, hauled the dirt or threw it with spades down in the low place of the walk. I intend turfing the upper side.
*(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 3, 1668
Up, and Captain Perryman come to me to tell me how Tatnell told him that this day one How is to charge me before the Commissioners of Prizes to the value of 8000l. in prizes, which I was troubled to hear, so fearful I am, though I know that there is not a penny to be laid to my charge that I dare not own, or that I have not owned under my hand, but upon recollection it signifies nothing to me, and so I value it not, being sure that I can have nothing in the world to my hurt known from the business. So to the office, where all the morning to despatch business, and so home to dinner with my clerks, whose company is of great pleasure to me for their good discourse in any thing of the navy I have a mind to talk of. After dinner by water from the Tower to White Hall, there to attend the Duke of York as usual, and particularly in a fresh complaint the Commissioners of the Treasury do make to him, and by and by to the Council this day of our having prepared certificates on the Exchequer to the further sum of near 50,000l., and soon as we had done with the Duke of York we did attend the Council; and were there called in, and did hear Mr. Sollicitor [General] make his Report to the Council in the business; which he did in a most excellent manner of words, but most cruelly severe against us, and so were some of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, as men guilty of a practice with the tradesmen, to the King’s prejudice. I was unwilling to enter into a contest with them; but took advantage of two or three words last spoke, and brought it to a short issue in good words, that if we had the King’s order to hold our hands, we would, which did end the matter: and they all resolved we should have it, and so it ended: and so we away; I vexed that I did not speak more in a cause so fit to be spoke in, and wherein we had so much advantage; but perhaps I might have provoked the Sollicitor and the Commissioners of the Treasury, and therefore, since, I am not sorry that I forbore. Thence my Lord Brouncker and I to the Duke of York’s playhouse, and there saw the latter part of “The Master and the Man,” and thence by coach to Duck Lane, to look out for Marsanne, in French, a man that has wrote well of musique, but it is not to be had, but I have given order for its being sent for over, and I did here buy Des Cartes his little treatise of musique, and so home, and there to read a little, and eat a little, though I find that my having so little taste do make me so far neglect eating that, unless company invite, I do not love to spend time upon eating, and so bring emptiness and the Cholique. So to bed. This day I hear that Prince Rupert and Holmes do go to sea: and by this there is a seeming friendship and peace among our great seamen; but the devil a bit is there any love among them, or can be.
*(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.)