February 6
Laura M., age 14, North Carolina
February 6, 1997
Good day! School was normal. Worked w/ Ann and Patrick :( . Went 2 Dad’s & waited for Courtney 2 come. We got drunk and went midnight bowling w/ a bunch of Apex people. Fun as hell. Met tons of peeps. Stewart was my fav. Went back 2 Courtney’s. We made some necklaces, etc. Yay!
Laura M., age 13, North Carolina
February 6, 1996
Me & Shannon got up around 11:00, I guess. We ate breakfast & watched some news. Then we walked over to Baskin Robbins. It was tasty and a long walk. Dad picked me up around 5:00. We all went to the Olive Garden w/ the Rogerses. Fun. I got sick around 10:00. Sandra & Dad made it better.
Anna L., age 75, Illinois
February 6, 1960
Lo up for bath, I got up and immediately discovered the burner was dead. Lo called Leanna. Came before 9:00 didn’t take long to get it working. Baked a pie and cake, later found out Cooks weren’t coming to eat. Helen had cough. Went to Carrie’s. She has a very bad cold and not going to Sunday school tomorrow. Lo getting things at drug store for her.
Marcy S., age 19, Missouri
February 6, 1944
Cold and windy. Cloudy in morn. Cleaned at noon. Listened to Burrell broadcast at 10. To church at 12. Good sermon on prayer. Back early. Found Alice Geston and Mona in room using ironing boards and my iron. Of all the nerve! Betty and I were flabbergasted! Mary saved our table. Wonderful dinner! Back to clean up room. At 2 Betty and I went to Missouri Theater and saw the Aldrich Family in “Henry Aldrich Haunts a House.” Funny and scary but mostly funny! Back about 4:30. Letter from Mum. Read then slept. Didn’t go to supper. Listened to One Man’s Family. Made me sad. Mary came for radio. Read Anna Karenina but got bored. About 9 Betty and I went to tearoom for sandwich. Then went for walk. Back by 10 for census. Mary Jo back. We went in and talked to her. Fun. Ate fudge. Then went up to Mary’s and Katherine’s and stayed til 11:30. To bed at 12, feeling wonderful.
Marcy S., age 16, Tennessee
February 6, 1941
Cloudy, not too cold. Dearest Mary was back. Bunny was very profuse in his welcome to her in history class. Funny, I don’t mind a bit. Clueny said she didn’t want to embarrass anyone, but she wanted to show them my time line. So neat, etc. Needless to say, she did embarrass someone. Mary and I exchanged numerous notes during day. I made her promise to destroy my 4-page one immediately after reading, but she begged me to let her keep it.
Henry S., age 26, Michigan
February 6, 1888
I took care of Una this forenoon while Kate did her washing. The poor little girl has hard times with her cough. Went out in the slashing this afternoon and sawed up come chunks for use nights. Richard Robbins was here a little while this afternoon. I went up town with him when he went back. Called at Mr. Harvey’s a while and had a talk. I sent in my subscription to The Office today. There is a bad snow storm driving from the southeast tonight.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Henry S., age 25, Michigan
February 6, 1887
I got up this morning about 6:30 and built the fires. It was storming, a half snow, and rain, but it developed into big snow, but did not last long. I began a letter to Kate before breakfast. As it stopped storming I got ready and went to church but did not stay to Sunday school. I wrote some more to Kate this afternoon and then got out the organ and played and sang some. I went up and called on the Prof. and looked over his copy for the coming College Catalogue, and corrected a mistake in the same in regard to my being a graduate of a college. Have been playing and singing again tonight. Charlie and Grace were here this evening. It has been a moderate day.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Columbus T., age 31, North Carolina
February 6, 1874
First to breakfast. Postal Card from Julia (sister) wondering why I had not recently put in an appearance at her house. Passed Consolidation bill with requiring conformity to N.C. gauge […] Had suspended rules and got up my bill to incorporate Harmony Hill camp ground. Passed. […] Wrote to sister Julia and sent letters of Pa, Ellie & N.A. Holman. […] Dickey B.K. has come to sleep with me as a Mr. McCoombs [In right margin] of Cherokee occupies his place tonight. [In left margin] Recollections of departed. Night 12 o’clock. We ought to be abed Sis.
*(Worthy of Record: The Civil War and Reconstruction Diaries of Columbus Lafayette Turner, Ed. Kenrick N. Simpson, courtesy of the State Archives of North Carolina.)
Cornelia H., age 26, North Carolina
February 6, 1863
Mail brought nothing new. He went back from here. Mr. Henry gave him a certificate so the mail will not go through this week. Vic left the mail here but took the log. Cold north wind today. Snow not melting any of consequence. Negroes getting wood. Very cold time to do it, it is true but we are out & have to have it or freeze. I made some tape trimming today & dampened dried & cut Mr. Henry’s coat this evening. Betsey cut 7 yds. out this morning for coat & pants. I am footing up some old socks for Pinck, some of his last winter socks. I do my knitting at night mostly. Not many people came to the office today as it is almost impassible along the road. Mr. Henry went to feed some sows & pigs this morning, he rode. He says ’tis nearly impassible for a horse to get along. ’Tis dreadful on the stock. We have a yearling choked on straw. I expect it will be dead by morning. We have had three nannie goats to die this winter & our lambs have nearly half died. We have had a dreadful winter on stock of all kinds.
*(Fear in North Carolina: The Civil War Journals and Letters of the Henry Family, Eds. Karen L. Clinard and Richard Russell, used with permission.)
Cornelia H., age 25, North Carolina
February 6, 1862
Mr. Henry went with those men to Asheville this morning. Not back till night. I have the headache very bad this evening. He brought me a letter from Lou & he got one from Barry Hogan. Fannie & Atheline scoured my room, the dining room & back piazza. Willie has a very bad cold, taken it today from staying in the hall room I think. The others are all well. Rained a little today but broke off in the evening but clouded again towards night.
*(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
February 5, 1668
Up, and to the office, where all the morning,, and among other things Sir H. Cholmly comes to me about a little business, and there tells me how the Parliament, which is to meet again to-day, are likely to fall heavy on the business of the Duke of Buckingham’s pardon; and I shall be glad of it: and that the King hath put out of the Court the two Hides, my Lord Chancellor’s two sons, and also the Bishops of Rochester and Winchester, the latter of whom should have preached before him yesterday, being Ash Wednesday, and had his sermon ready, but was put by; which is great news: He gone, we sat at the office all the morning, and at noon home to dinner, and my wife being gone before, I to the Duke of York’s playhouse; where a new play of Etherige’s, called “She Would if she Could;” and though I was there by two o’clock, there was 1000 people put back that could not have room in the pit: and I at last, because my wife was there, made shift to get into the 18d. box, and there saw; but, Lord! how full was the house, and how silly the play, there being nothing in the world good in it, and few people pleased in it. The King was there; but I sat mightily behind, and could see but little, and hear not all. The play being done, I into the pit to look (for) my wife, and it being dark and raining, I to look my wife out, but could not find her; and so staid going between the two doors and through the pit an hour and half, I think, after the play was done; the people staying there till the rain was over, and to talk with one another. And, among the rest, here was the Duke of Buckingham to-day openly sat in the pit; and there I found him with my Lord Buckhurst, and Sidly, and Etherige, the poet; the last of whom I did hear mightily find fault with the actors, that they were out of humour, and had not their parts perfect, and that Harris did do nothing, nor could so much as sing a ketch in it; and so was mightily concerned while all the rest did, through the whole pit, blame the play as a silly, dull thing, though there was something very roguish and witty; but the design of the play, and end, mighty insipid. At last I did find my wife staying for me in the entry; and with her was Betty Turner, Mercer, and Deb. So I got a coach, and a humour took us, and I carried them to Hercules Pillars, and there did give them a kind of a supper of about 7s., and very merry, and home round the town, not through the ruines; and it was pretty how the coachman by mistake drives us into the ruines from London-wall into Coleman Street: and would persuade me that I lived there. And the truth is, I did think that he and the linkman had contrived some roguery; but it proved only a mistake of the coachman; but it was a cunning place to have done us a mischief in, as any I know, to drive us out of the road into the ruines, and there stop, while nobody could be called to help us. But we come safe home, and there, the girls being gone home, I to the office, where a while busy, my head not being wholly free of my trouble about my prize business, I home to bed. This evening coming home I did put my hand under the coats of Mercer and did touch her thigh, but then she did put by my hand and no hurt done, but talked and sang and was merry.
*(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.)