June 22
Laura M., age 15, North Carolina
June 22, 1997
Up at 7:30 without trying! Chilled with Rachel and all. Caught 1:00 ferry. Drove home by 6:00. Ate some. Dad/Sandra came home.
Laura M., age 14, North Carolina
June 22, 1996
Talked to Sean. Went to softball practice. Showered. Went to another softball practice. Brittany spent the night. Drank some.
Anna L., age 75, Illinois
June 22, 1960
A bad storm early A.M. Didn’t hear it, back porch soaked, cleaning up everything, going to throw rug down basement slipped and fell all the way down, cracked rib bruised and strained. Sat a while before going up, spied an animal on top step, proved to be baby squirrel. When I tossed boots down it jumped out. Lo came home for car later. Took me to the Dr. Very uncomfortable and sick later. Mrs. B. came in eve. Stayed while Lo went for Karen. Came before ten.
Marcy S., age 19, Tennessee
June 22, 1944
Hot again. Cloudy around noon. On my way back I stopped at Miss King’s for the mail. And found a letter from Jane Norris, Mary Lamm, and Miss GoodSmith. Plus a catalogue from the U. of Wash. and the Record. Mr. H. not there so I read my mail in privacy. Mary is working for United Airlines in Cheyenne and is having a gay old time! I opened the U. catalogue and the first thing that hit me was the startling announcement that the fall term doesn’t start till Nov. 1st! I rushed in and ’phoned Mum and then wrote Betty an exclamation note! That means I’ll be around till about the middle of October. Gee! that’ll seem funny! Mr. Pearson came in and we had quite a conversation. He looked all over the papers I’d typed on the case and said they were okay. He left and soon Mr. H. returned. I worked till 5:30. In the evening I wrote Jane and Mary all the news. Lovely sunset.
Marcy S., age 16, Tennessee
June 22, 1941
Cloudy when I woke up. Expected rain any minute. Daddy went to Sunday school and in the men’s class. Mrs. Spencer taught our class. Just a few there. Only 56 in Sunday school.
Between Sunday school and church Ruth, Ella, and I walked down to Ruth’s house. Pan is visiting in Oneida. It was still cloudy but hadn’t rained. Ella said she liked my green dress. As we got back to the church Daddy and some others were talking to Miss Kilburn, my former Sunday school teacher when I was quite young (ahem!). We got reacquainted. Mr. Jones’s sermon was “Three in One,” about personalities, and was very good.
After church I went down to Ruth’s house while she changed her clothes and got her lunch. When we left, mid “Be careful of snakes; don’t get lost, etcs.”, the sun was coming through the clouds. Quite warm. When we got home Mother said that Mary had come by to say they’d be a little late since she had to go home and fix her lunch. I changed my dress and helped Mother. Then I sat out on the porch with Ruth and read the paper. Mom and Dad ate lunch and teased us about having to wait for ours.
We had just about given up hope when around the corner came Mary and William about 1:00. We piled in the back seat and after stopping for gas, were off. We drove out toward Oliver Springs. The scenery was so lovely under the cloudy sky. We teased Mary ’cause William wouldn’t let her drive and had fun. Then we turned off on another road and followed a rocky creek until we came to a sort of (artificial) cave under the mountains and a bridge and railroad nearby.
We parked the car and got out to explore. We scrambled down by the trestle and the first thing that met our eyes was a big black snake in the muddy water of the creek. I uttered a shriek to warn the others and then we threw things at it and poked it till it took refuge under a bank of “creek weed.” Then we followed the stream along a path through jungle-like bushes and trees and at every step we expected to meet a snake.
When it started to get too complicated we left it and came out on the road, which we followed back to the car. Not being ready to eat, however, we decided to walk the railroad. There were some cows strolling around but they hastily dispersed at sight of us (not that we blamed them). Once William saw a lizard and we all hurried to watch it. William, Ruth, and I were on one side of the rail while Mary was on the other. William poked at it with a stick until it shot out the other side, right at Mary. She screamed and jumped just in time. It raced down the bank. How we did tease Mary!
Then Mary and I decided to do some more exploring, and, leaving Ruth and William to walk the ties we scrambled down after the lizard and investigated the underbrush until Mary sighted something yellow jumping around down near the creek and she ran back with a shriek. I retreated also, but soon we bravely advanced and finally managed to cross the stream via rocks and after numerous scratches, etc. we reached an opening that led to the road far above. We thought we’d start a landslide but eventually with little harm done, reached the top. William and Rufus were exploring the safer regions near the car.
We got soap and towels and went down to the stream to wash. Mary and Ruth went down this side of the trestle while William and I crossed it (with much dizziness on my part) and went down to somehow cross the stream and Willie arose to meet the situation by throwing rocks in and at last making a somewhat unsteady pathway at intervals across the water. I made a number of valiant attempts and finally with much squealing balancing and unbalancing, I managed to make a safe landing on the other side. It was then 2:30 and we were quite ready to eat. We set up our feast under the comparatively cool [end of entry]
Aloys F., age 16, County Cork, Ireland
June 22, 1926
Went to 8 Mass again. Found a paper had come from poor Julia. She said it might be of use to Páp. It was ‘Le Matin’! She thought it was a German paper; it was very good of her. – A month ago I proposed having a feast or something on last day of term in Fr. Dinny’s Latin class, as it would be last day of us 7 being together. So to-day each of us gave 1/-, Fannie’s sister brought up 2 doz. cakes and four of us broke bounds at play-time to get 8 bottles of lemonade. As I was settling the bottles behind the blackboard before class, didn’t I find Scannie behind me. But he was very decent, entered in the sport, and gave us wine-glasses. About 20 mins. before end of the Latin then we suddenly produced the feast. Fr. Dinny was quite delighted, and we all drank lemonade, ate snowballs, and gave toasts. He actually said that he in return should give us a day in Crosshaven! But we wouldn’t have it. – We are having class till Thurs. – After school went for a new cap, and for Confession, which I couldn’t get. Wasn’t at Confession for 10 days. Worked well to-day, but I must finish ‘Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts’ when the school has closed. Fannie actually had an ancient Greek or Roman coin in school to-day! It must be very valuable.
*(Original Archive Copyright © Estate of Aloys Fleischmann. The Fleischmann Diaries Online Archive by Róisín O’Brien is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Used with permission.)
Henry S., age 26, Michigan
June 22, 1888
This makes about a week that it has been 90 degrees in the shade every day. Pa has been on the road. I hoed in the garden some this afternoon, but the heat was so intense that I sweat my shirt completely through. I looked over a lesson in shorthand, but I don’t know whether I would like the system or not, I would have time to study that now, anyway. Ma put out some plants on the graves tonight. There is a big rain storm going off south this evening.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Henry S., age 25, Michigan
June 22, 1887
I did some teaming with Jimmie this forenoon, drawing up some water from the creek and getting out some wood. Fred Neill was here plowing the greater share of the day. He plowed up the front yard for me, so I can level it off now, and fix a decent yard. I dug some roots for Kate; her ear is troubling her again today. I did considerable spading and grubbing around trees where Fred plowed. Went up town tonight for the mail and found that my buckboard had arrived. It has been cool and threatening rain all day, it has rained a little tonight.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Cornelia H., age 26, North Carolina
June 22, 1863
Mail brought no news at all. Harrie is mightly out about Vicksburg, fears we will surrender. I expected a letter from Mr. Henry but was disappointed sadly. Willie getting better of the rattling. I washed the baby’s neck in borax water today. It does not seem to help any, still raw. I began to fix an old dress for myself today, did not get it near done. It is the one Sister Jane gave me three years ago when I was last at home. I put a belt in it & am going to face the skirt as ’tis too short.
*(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
June 22, 1862
Mr. Henry has had some wheat cut, it is not much account. Pleasant this morning. We intended to spend the day with Till Morris today but Willie was sick last night & is not well this morning. I want to go after dinner if Mr. Henry is willing & take all the children. Mr. Henry is laying down in side room but not asleep. Dinner will soon be on so I must stop & make Willie some panada. I am upstairs writing in room over mine. We did not go to see Till. Mr. Henry slept nearly all the evening & I went to Mrs. Fanning’s in the evening. Did not stay long. I took Zona & Pinck. There was company there. Mrs. Fanning was not at home. Mr. Henry took a long walk. I did not go for I did not feel well. I read. It was dark when he came back.
*(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
June 22, 1667
Up, and to my office, where busy, and there comes Mrs. Daniel … At the office I all the morning busy. At noon home to dinner, where Mr. Lewes Phillips, by invitation of my wife, comes, he coming up to town with her in the coach this week, and she expected another gentleman, a fellow-traveller, and I perceive the feast was for him, though she do not say it, but by some mistake he come not, so there was a good dinner lost. Here we had the two Mercers, and pretty merry. Much talk with Mr. Phillips about country business, among others that there is no way for me to purchase any severall lands in Brampton, or making any severall that is not so, without much trouble and cost, and, it may be, not do it neither, so that there is no more ground to be laid to our Brampton house. After dinner I left them, and to the office, and thence to Sir W. Pen’s, there to talk with Mrs. Lowther, and by and by we hearing Mercer and my boy singing at my house, making exceeding good musique, to the joy of my heart, that I should be the master of it, I took her to my office and there merry a while, and then I left them, and at the office busy all the afternoon, and sleepy after a great dinner. In the evening come Captain Hart and Haywood to me about the six merchant-ships now taken up for men-of-war; and in talk they told me about the taking of “The Royal Charles;” that nothing but carelessness lost the ship, for they might have saved her the very tide that the Dutch come up, if they would have but used means and had had but boats: and that the want of boats plainly lost all the other ships. That the Dutch did take her with a boat of nine men, who found not a man on board her, and her laying so near them was a main temptation to them to come on; and presently a man went up and struck her flag and jacke, and a trumpeter sounded upon her “Joan’s placket is torn,” that they did carry her down at a time, both for tides and wind, when the best pilot in Chatham would not have undertaken it, they heeling her on one side to make her draw little water: and so carried her away safe. They being gone, by and by comes Sir W. Pen home, and he and I together talking. He hath been at Court; and in the first place, I hear the Duke of Cambridge is dead; which is a great loss to the nation, having, I think, never an heyre male now of the King’s or Duke’s to succeed to the Crown. He tells me that they do begin already to damn the Dutch, and call them cowards at White Hall, and think of them and their business no better than they used to do; which is very sad. The King did tell him himself, which is so, I was told, here in the City, that the City, hath lent him 10,000l., to be laid out towards securing of the River of Thames; which, methinks, is a very poor thing, that we should be induced to borrow by such mean sums. He tells me that it is most manifest that one great thing making it impossible for us to have set out a fleete this year, if we could have done it for money or stores, was the liberty given the beginning of the year for the setting out of merchant-men, which did take up, as is said, above ten, if not fifteen thousand seamen: and this the other day Captain Cocke tells me appears in the council-books, that is the number of seamen required to man the merchant ships that had passes to go abroad. By and by, my wife being here, they sat down and eat a bit of their nasty victuals, and so parted and we 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.)