April 5
Laura M., age 16, North Carolina
April 5, 1998
Took Courtney 2 work. Worked from 12-3. Homework. Nap. Came home. Homework and story. Jon called. Ate. Paged him. Talked a bit. Talked 2 Ash.
Laura M., age 15, North Carolina
April 5, 1997
Up at 10:00. Me and Mom went to Caribou and I got a muffin. Good. Did yard/house work. Took a nap. Showered. Kenny, Druscie, etc. came for dinner. Me and Tom and Lily watched “Tommy Boy.” I stayed up after they left and watched “SNL.”
Anna L., age 75, Illinois
April 5, 1960
Cleaned up stairs and stairs also down. Cooked eve. meal. Did some washing. Out to cabin and home. Lo to pick up Carrie for Service Class. We (Mrs. B. and I) went later. 17 members. Cake and coffee served. Couldn’t go to sleep.
Marcy S., age 19, Missouri
April 5, 1944
Bright, beautiful day but quite cool. Went to tennis on Willis Courts at 11. About 9 in class. We learned the swing and hit balls around a little. I’m so dumb. Felt very discouraged - and old inferior feeling came back full force. Worn out! Sore all over!! Good lunch. Practiced at 2. Then studied. Betty went to tennis at 3. I went to see Mr. Carson at 4 but remembered he had a meeting. Went to town for Easter cards. Back and studied. Went to see about switching gym classes and being in Betty’s class but no can do. Good dinner. Had oodles of studying to do but Betty and I threw work to the winds and went to the Missouri with Mary Jo, Jane and Noreen and saw “The Navy Way” which was better than we had expected. Then went to bus station but they were out of rolls. Got dough nuts. I understand Mary Jo better now. Jane got to bath first - I put vacuum cleaner in front of door and she fell on it! To bed late. Stayed up to read history.
Marcy S., age 16, Tennessee
April 5, 1941
Cloudy, cool. Studied after music lesson till dinnertime. After dinner I went up to Helen’s and saw Barbara and the kittens. Then we went to town. Back about 4:00. I took a nap when I should have been studying, but I was so sleepy. So nice and cozy, and I dreamed a bit (Virgie and Duke). After supper I practiced. Do hope it’s nice tomorrow. Things interesting again.
Henry S., age 26, Michigan
April 5, 1888
We Invoiced the Dry goods, Boots, Shoes, and Notions, today. Finishing up about 9 o’clock tonight. I have the footings all carried out and will close up the books tomorrow. I will be ready to go home the fore part of next week. We had a thunder storm last night, the first of the season. The robins were singing lively this morning. It has been mild weather all day.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Henry S., age 25, Michigan
April 5, 1887
I went over to our house this forenoon and painted the woodwork in the bedroom. I had to use green wood for a fire but it seemed to go very well. I got through about noon. The weather was pretty wild this morning but grew calmer and thawed some in the sunshine. It is quiet and not cold tonight. I began on the last week of school today. Was in the store a while after school, posting the Books and trying to read telegrams. I went over to Mr. Waters with Fred and took supper there. Mr. Waters paid me 75 dollars for Fred on account of the horse I got for him last spring. I have not done any thing this evening, but talk and read.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Cornelia H., age 25, North Carolina
April 5, 1862
Rain in the morning. I turfed some but Mr. Henry had me to come in out of it. He went to Ham Moore’s after dinner as it cleared off. Atheline & I turfed the upper side of the walk, a good evening’s work at that. Hanes attended to Willie. He is rather troublesome. Hanes is not large enough to manage him. We brought the dirt out of the garden on which we turfed.
*(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 5, 1668
(Lord’s day). Up, and to my chamber, and there to the writing fair some of my late musique notions, and so to church, where I have not been a good while, and thence home, and dined at home, with W. Hewer with me; and after dinner, he and I a great deal of good talk touching this Office, how it is spoiled by having so many persons in it, and so much work that is not made the work of any one man, but of all, and so is never done; and that the best way to have it well done, were to have the whole trust in one, as myself, to set whom I pleased to work in the several businesses of the Office, and me to be accountable for the whole, and that would do it, as I would find instruments: but this is not to be compassed; but something I am resolved to do about Sir J. Minnes before it be long. Then to my chamber again, to my musique, and so to church; and then home, and thither comes Captain Silas Taylor to me, the Storekeeper of Harwich, where much talk, and most of it against Captain Deane, whom I do believe to be a high, proud fellow; but he is an active man, and able in his way, and so I love him. He gone, I to my musique again, and to read a little, and to sing with Mr. Pelling, who come to see me, and so spent the evening, and then to supper and to bed. I hear that eight of the ringleaders in the late tumults of the ’prentices at Easter are condemned to die.
*(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.)