March 27
Laura M., age 16, North Carolina
March 27, 1998
Busy! Worked at the Juice Shop from 10-1 with Lindsay. John came there. We went 2 Bond Park and to the bank. Worked at Manhattan from 3-close with Kim. LAST DAY! :) Showered and story. Cousins. Ate. Went 2 Christian’s house 2 chill with John. It was cool. He’s so nice. No kissin’. Went 2 Née’s at 9:30. Saw Zach! (Spent night.) Tarik, Sol…
Laura M., age 15, North Carolina
March 27, 1997
Okay day. Crozier, Sean, and Karen were high after 2nd lunch. Crozier’s adorable. Karen seemed like she was fakin’ it. Em picked me up at school and took me to dentist. Mom picked me up. Watched story. Eddie picked me up. Went to Los Tres. Watched TV. Planned camping trip. :) Mom got me 2 new shirts for Easter.
Anna L., age 75, Illinois
March 27, 1960
A real nice A.M. a tiny shower here and there. Picked Carrie up for Sunday school. She was quite late getting here. So many things needed doing at cabin. Decided to go out and do them as soon as dishes were done. Lo got milk for Carrie, took her home and we went out. Cleared up wood in garage, replaced outside lite, vacuumed and dusted. Scrubbed table and benches, home to eat and bathe and to bed.
Marcy S., age 19, Missouri
March 27, 1944
(m) Bright but quite cold. Miss Erb helped me compose letter to Mr. Harris after shorthand. I cut Eng. Lit. and registered for gym - tennis. Then went to town. Back and practiced voice. Lesson at 10. Got new piece. Practiced til 11:30. Good lunch. Piano lesson at 2. Practiced. Then studied history and started another chapter in Dewey at 4. Betty came back from Board of Pub. rather down and out. She’s been in touchy mood all day. Prospect of recital no doubt. Good dinner. We practiced getting our voices down afterwards. Then at 7:30 went up to student theater for Miss Blenko’s students’ recital. About 10 on program. Betty sang first - got scared, rolled her eyes!, and missed high note. I nearly died but it was her first public performance and bless her heart she had butterflies!! Rest of program amusing - some were good, though. Back to hall about 8. Ann and Norene were in Jane’s room. Betty sang her song for them. Then we decided to go down to bus station for some rolls. Betty and I got 2 each. I finished chapter in Dewey, thought, and to bed. Jane came in and we talked.
Henry S., age 26, Michigan
March 27, 1888
I went over to the store this morning and posted up the books and did some work on the Town treasurer’s books also. I set my watch by telegraph; it was only 1 minute out of the way. I am getting anxious for school to close. I was awful tired tonight; I don’t feel as though I want to ever teach again. Fred Neill was up here a while tonight. I wrote a letter to the Office on the Type writer today, was at the store some this evening.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Henry S., age 25, Michigan
March 27, 1887
It began to snow this morning and has kept it up all day, the wind got in the north and a sort of blizzard has prevailed. I guess I can’t go to Frankfort tomorrow. Fred and I went to church this forenoon. I painted and did pen and ink work on a birthday card which, I am going to send to Kate as next Friday is Kate’s birthday. I wrote her a letter too. I read some in my papers today so as to post up on the news. It looks as though we was going to have winter until it is time for summer. I would like to see the ground bare and hear the birds sing again. I suppose we will in due time.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Cornelia H., age 25, North Carolina
March 27, 1862
I went to the mill this morning to get Mr. Henry to make a fringe paddle. Took Willie. Began my fringe & made enough to go on pillow slips by dinner. Sewed it on & Fannie & I went up to hotel place to get some shrubery to plant out in the front yard. I planted it all out after we came back. Peter Guy’s child died this morning of sore throat. They came here for a sheet to lay it out on.
*(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 27, 1668
Up, and walked to the waterside, and thence to White Hall to the Duke of York’s chamber, where he being ready he went to a Committee of Tangier, where I first understand that my Lord Sandwich is, in his coming back from Spayne, to step over thither, to see in what condition the place is, which I am glad of, hoping that he will be able to do some good there, for the good of the place, which is so much out of order. Thence to walk a little in Westminster Hall, where the Parliament I find sitting, but spoke with nobody to let me know what they are doing, nor did I enquire. Thence to the Swan and drank, and did baiser Frank, and so down by water back again, and to the Exchange a turn or two, only to show myself, and then home to dinner, where my wife and I had a small squabble, but I first this day tried the effect of my silence and not provoking her when she is in an ill humour, and do find it very good, for it prevents its coming to that height on both sides which used to exceed what was fit between us. So she become calm by and by and fond, and so took coach, and she to the mercer’s to buy some lace, while I to White Hall, but did nothing, but then to Westminster Hall and took a turn, and so to Mrs. Martin’s, and there did sit a little and talk and drink, and did hazer con her, and so took coach and called my wife at Unthanke’s, and so up and down to the Nursery, where they did not act, then to the New Cockpit, and there missed, and then to Hide Parke, where many coaches, but the dust so great, that it was troublesome, and so by night home, where to my chamber and finished my pricking out of my song for Mr. Harris (“It is decreed”), and so a little supper, being very sleepy and weary since last night, and so by to o’clock to bed and slept well all night. This day, at noon, comes Mr. Pelling to me, and shews me the stone cut lately out of Sir Thomas Adams’ (the old comely Alderman’s) body, which is very large indeed, bigger I think than my fist, and weighs above twenty-five ounces and, which is very miraculous, he never in all his life had any fit of it, but lived to a great age without pain, and died at last of something else, without any sense of this in all his life. This day Creed at White Hall in discourse told me what information he hath had, from very good hands, of the cowardice and ill-government of Sir Jer. Smith and Sir Thomas Allen, and the repute they have both of them abroad in the Streights, from their deportment when they did at several times command there; and that, above all Englishmen that ever were there, there never was any man that behaved himself like poor Charles Wager, whom the very Moores do mention, with teares sometimes.
*(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.)