March 25
Laura M., age 16, North Carolina
March 25, 1998
Went 2 Subway with Courtney and Liam and 2 the reservoir. Showered. John called. Talked about 20 minutes. Picked up Ash. Went 2 Dad’s. Ate. Went 2 Dad’s basketball game. Cute. Goodberries. Ash’s. Picked up John. Went 2 Née’s 4 pool, drove. Dropped him off. All 3 spent night at Ash’s. He’s cute.
Laura M., age 15, North Carolina
March 25, 1997
Crozier is so cute!!! Zach was high as hell today in Biology. He was so funny. Crozier was high, too. But he wasn’t as nice as usual. Oh, well. Talked to Brittany on the phone and it was really nice. Then I talked to Courtney and it was even nicer. Talked to Ashley. I’m not on her softball team! DAMN. Tried on my bikini and I had 100% confidence. I told Mom and we hugged really big.
Emily M., age 12, North Carolina
March 25, 1990
We woke up and me, Kristin and Heather all went on a walk on the beach with their grandfather. The sand was so cold that it numbed our feet! Me and Kristin started making up a dance to “Forever Your Girl” by Paul Abdule. That took all morning! Then me, Kristin, and Heather went to the beach for the rest of the day. It was fun! The only guys we saw were four high school seniors! What a bummer! Gotta go.
Anna L., age 75, Illinois
March 25, 1960
Mrs. B. called quite early, had quite a visit. Later talked with Mary M. In P.M. began snowing was not predicted until later. 2 to 3 inches very lite. Took paper and junk out to burn. Came home and swept porches. Lo cleaned walks. Talked with Amy. Ole expected to undergo surgery Wed. but wouldn’t know until later. He didn’t want them to come in this week end will go later. David came home with a boy from Lombard. Josephine Kruse picked the boys up there, Amy went along.
Marcy S., age 19, Missouri
March 25, 1944
Cold and snowy and rainy. Windy. Practiced and studied between 8 and 10. In history Mr. Carson broke news about big test coming up Thursday! Reports in Philosophy. Good lunch. I like Jacq Polk a lot - she’s really super! Betty and I went to town after lunch. My Phi Theta pin had come. Back, washed clothes and read Dewey. I really enjoy reading that book, despite concentration required. Good dinner. Afterwards Betty and I decided on spur of moment to go to cinema lab.We saw Victor MacLaglen in “The Informer.” Splendid acting but the machine acted up and sort of ruined it. Back about 9. Ironed and got ready for bed. About 11:30 Betty and I went over to Mary Jo’s and Jane’s room for a spread celebrating Eleanor’s birthday. Eleanor had asked us. A visiting friend of hers was there and Valerie, Doris D. and Kackie. We stuffed and had yummy chocolate cake. To bed 1 a.m. full and sleepy.
Marcy S., age 16, Tennessee
March 25, 1941
Nice, somewhat milder. Sorta fun in history. Not quite so much in love now. Hate dull Latin. Have to type stencil in typing on Thursday. Haven’t faintest idea what a stencil is. Finished all my lesson before end of fifth study hall. Started on History theme. Read plays in office. Music lesson at 4:00. Met Helen as I was coming out. Went to White Store with her. Saw Bunny, naturally. Wrote letters till suppertime. At 7:30 went to Book Worms meeting at school. Margaret French reviewed “Tree of Liberty.” Very interesting. Through about 9:00. Had strawberry shortcake. Daddy came for me. Home and to bed late. Glad tonight is over. Seniors are going to Athens tomorrow for a vocational conference. Ah!
Henry S., age 26, Michigan
March 25, 1888
I went to church this forenoon. Mr. McClellan, a minister visiting here at Mr. Waters’ preached. I wrote or rather printed a letter to Kate on Mr. Waters’ typewriter. It was something new and was lots of amusement to me. I made a good many mistakes but think I could have to run one successfully in a short time. I went over to my house this afternoon and got our photo album. Called at the Neill’s for a while. It was quite warm during the day, but is growing cold again tonight.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Henry S., age 25, Michigan
March 25, 1887
I got up this morning and built the fires and went to the barn and fed Fred’s colts, went to the store to study telegraphy as usual, I heard [Muskegon?] calling this office, and went up in the hall and got [Cha…?] Case to come and take the message, it was for me telling me that Kate and little daughter were going well, I was surprised and glad. I feel so much easier now. I wrote a message and sent it to Kate doing the telegraphing myself. It was my first message and I succeeded in getting it through without a mistake. I had a little talk with the operator at Frankfort tonight. He wrote slow and could understand quite well. Fred came home tonight.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Cornelia H., age 25, North Carolina
March 25, 1862
Mr. Henry went to Asheville this morning. Nothing new over there. I got a letter from Sister Jane, also one from Lena. I have not heard from either in some time before. Sister Jane will be confined soon. I hope she may pass safely through. I began Pinck a pair drawers but did not finish them. I helped Atheline put in her quilt. Cold & cloudy yet.
*(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
March 25, 1668
Up, and walked to White Hall, there to wait on the Duke of York, which I did: and in his chamber there, first by hearing the Duke of York call me by my name, my Lord Burlington did come to me, and with great respect take notice of me and my relation to my Lord Sandwich, and express great kindness to me; and so to talk of my Lord Sandwich’s concernments. By and by the Duke of York is ready; and I did wait for an opportunity of speaking my mind to him about Sir J. Minnes, his being unable to do the King any service, which I think do become me to do in all respects, and have Sir W. Coventry’s concurrence therein, which I therefore will seek a speedy opportunity to do, come what will come of it. The Duke of York and all with him this morning were full of the talk of the ‘prentices, who are not yet [put] down, though the guards and militia of the town have been in armes all this night, and the night before; and the ‘prentices have made fools of them, sometimes by running from them and flinging stones at them. Some blood hath been spilt, but a great many houses pulled down; and, among others, the Duke of York was mighty merry at that of Damaris Page’s, the great bawd of the seamen; and the Duke of York complained merrily that he hath lost two tenants, by their houses being pulled down, who paid him for their wine licenses 15l. a year. But here it was said how these idle fellows have had the confidence to say that they did ill in contenting themselves in pulling down the little bawdyhouses, and did not go and pull down the great bawdy-house at White Hall. And some of them have the last night had a word among them, and it was “Reformation and Reducement.” This do make the courtiers ill at ease to see this spirit among people, though they think this matter will not come to much: but it speaks people’s minds; and then they do say that there are men of understanding among them, that have been of Cromwell’s army: but how true that is, I know not. Thence walked a little to Westminster, but met with nobody to spend any time with, and so by coach homeward, and in Seething Lane met young Mrs. Daniel, and I stopt, and she had been at my house, but found nobody within, and tells me that she drew me for her Valentine this year, so I took her into the coach, and was going to the other end of the town, thinking to have taken her abroad, but remembering that I was to go out with my wife this afternoon, … and so to a milliner at the corner shop going into Bishopsgate and Leadenhall Street, and there did give her eight pair of gloves, and so dismissed her, and so I home and to dinner, and then with my wife to the King’s playhouse to see “The Storme,” which we did, but without much pleasure, it being but a mean play compared with “The Tempest,” at the Duke of York’s house, though Knepp did act her part of grief very well. Thence with my wife and Deb. by coach to Islington, to the old house, and there eat and drank till it was almost night, and then home, being in fear of meeting the ‘prentices, who are many of them yet, they say, abroad in the fields, but we got well home, and so I to my chamber a while, and then to supper and 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.)