December 6
Laura M., age 15, North Carolina
December 6, 1997
We got up at 10. Showered and ate. Came home. Went on walk. Slept. Did homework. Karauses came. Ate dinner. Courtney and Liam came at 9:30. Went 2 Renée’s (Scott, Zach, Joe, Yasir, Sol, Dereck). Came home at 11:00. “SNL.”
Marcy S., age 47, North Carolina
December 6, 1971
We hate what we fear — or at least have very strong feelings of hostility toward that which we fear. So my fear of men has lots of hostility in it. Stop this!! I hereby take a vow that between now and January 1, 1972, I will not indulge in any more negative analyzing. I may not have any control over my feelings but I can certainly decide what thoughts I’m going to entertain. Each day for rest of this month I’m going to write a positive thought in this book.
Trust the Holy Spirit.
Anna L., age 75, Illinois
December 6, 1960
(Service class.) Mrs. B. had called last nite to ask about rolls. Told her the sad news. Edna called about having the meeting, told her I’d be there. Took things all over while it was day lite. Had hair appt. so kept that too. Lo had been up this A.M. to tell Bess, she came down in P.M. I was at cabin so she came over for a while, later we went back over the fence and had coffee. Lo took Bess home, she went to cabin. I went to Mrs. B.’s. A good crowd and party.
Henry S., age 26, Michigan
December 6, 1887
I got up and sawed some wood by moonlight before breakfast this morning. I finished the lettering in the new church Bible, this forenoon. Miss Judson and Miss Van Deman came over to let me know that a picture of the College was to be taken at noon, and I got them to carry the Bible up in their buggy. Went up early and was there to have my picture with the rest. It has been a very fine day.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Cornelia H., age 26, North Carolina
December 6, 1862
Finished Hanes’ shirt that I sewed some on yesterday & made Charlie’s so I am done shirt making for them for a while. Very cold today. High wind from the North, the coldest day this or last winter. Jim got the wheel this evening, a very nice one at that. I made a pair pantletts after supper & put them on the old cotton flannel drawers. Got done by 9. This will be a cold windy night for certain. Boyd went home this evening. I will not wash the children tonight as Willie is sleepy & I have to take him.
*(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 34, London
December 6, 1667
Up, and with Sir J. Minnes to the Duke of York, the first time that I have seen him, or we waited on him, since his sickness; and, blessed be God! he is not at all the worse for the smallpox, but is only a little weak yet. We did much business with him, and so parted. My Lord Anglesey told me how my Lord Northampton brought in a Bill into the House of Lords yesterday, under the name of a Bill for the Honour and Privilege of the House, and Mercy to my Lord Clarendon: which, he told me, he opposed, saying that he was a man accused of treason by the House of Commons; and mercy was not proper for him, having not been tried yet, and so no mercy needful for him. However, the Duke of Buckingham and others did desire that the Bill might be read; and it, was for banishing my Lord Clarendon from all his Majesty’s dominions, and that it should be treason to have him found in any of them: the thing is only a thing of vanity, and to insult over him, which is mighty poor I think, and so do every body else, and ended in nothing, I think.
*(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.)