March 29
Laura M., age 16, North Carolina
March 29, 1998
Up at 10:30. Took Ash home. Worked from 2-6. Slammed. Had Los Tres 4 supper. Watched “Full Monty.” Homework.
Laura M., age 15, North Carolina
March 29, 1997
Busy day! Up at 9:00. Had Ray’s pancakes. Mmm… Me, Shellie, Mom went and looked at property, out to lunch, shoppin’, hikin’, grocery storin’. Came back and ate dinner and watched “Simpsons.”
Emily M., age 12, North Carolina
March 29, 1990
Today was great! Well the first part was anyway… I woke up to rain (which meant no zoo) but we went to eat with Sandra so the morning was great. But then we went bowling… While we were waiting for a lane I was chasing Becca and I noticed some guys watching me. Then one came up and said the other wanted my phone number! Well naturally I was flattered but I wasn’t going to give it to some guy I knew nothing about so I changed the numbers around. I felt pretty bad about it. Gotta go.
Anna L., age 75, Illinois
March 29, 1960
By bringing things in had quite a bit of ironing. Ms. B. called, wanted me to come over so quick finished ironing, stayed for an hour or more. A beautiful day and turned so warm. The snow really disappeared not a bit in the back yard, so much water standing everywhere. Amy stopped in to say she’d heard from Ole and he was much better, not strong but feeling pretty good.
Marcy S., age 19, Missouri
March 29, 1944
Bright and windy and cold. Had cramps at noon something awful!! Real good lunch. Did shorthand during siesta. Then spent rest of afternoon studying for history test. Had more fun!! Betty finished around 4 and thought I was crazy to spend so much time on it but my brain needed the exercises and I really enjoyed memorizing and concentrating! Went in and talked to Mary Jo and Jane awhile. Good dinner. Spent evening studying history again - until 11:30. Jane brought us a roll. To bed at 12. Felt as if I knew something, though.
Marcy S., age 13, Tennessee
March 29, 1938
It is warm today but rainy (at least it looks like rain). Our row didn’t have any chapel program again so we didn’t go in the other room. Some people make me so mad! For instance Lawrence Cate. What he isn’t into! And he takes more privileges. (“King Lawrence the Last,” I hope.) Have we got an assignment in English to know by Wednesday! It’s two whole pages to memorize, and if we don’t know them we don’t get our 8th grade diploma. (I guess that fails me.) Nancy just got moved away from Charles and Earl. She sits behind Wahoo now. I went to the library after school and renewed “Rilla of Ingleside” and got a new book “Rainbow Valley.” Those kind of books make me wish I didn’t live in this awful world of today, but I guess I’ll have to make the best of it. How I do wish that we didn’t have cars, airplanes (although I do like them), radios and other things. It would be a lot of fun to just ride in buggys [sic] and the such. After the library I went to my music lesson. When I came back I played outside, then I studied and read in the evening. Helen’s cat, Fluffy, had a baby. Helen named it Joy.
Henry S., age 26, Michigan
March 29, 1888
It snowed some this morning, and looked like winter again. I finished my teaching at the Grand Traverse College this afternoon; I think it is my last teaching up here. I feel a load lifted from my shoulders. Practiced singing for tomorrow evening’s entertainment, with Mr. Harvey and Mr. Pettit. Have been writing some cards for Miss Stiles. Feel tired tonight. No more copies to write, or Bookkeeping work to explain.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Henry S., age 25, Michigan
March 29, 1887
I slept sound this morning, did not get up early. I did not go to the store this morning. I wrote copies, mended some of my clothes, and spent the remainder of the forenoon reading and taking some medicine for fever, which I have been have a little of for some time. It was a blustering forenoon out, but was quite pleasant this afternoon. I went to the store after school and posted up the books and practiced telegraphy some. I read considerable of a message that went through. I have been writing a letter to Kate tonight, and wishing I could talk instead. I am getting anxious to have her come as soon as she can. I want to see her and the baby so bad.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Cornelia H., age 25, North Carolina
March 29, 1862
I got up with headache, took some pills. It got well after dinner. I finished working one pillow slip. Washed Willie’s & Zona’s head & put them on clean clothes. Atheline got her quilt out before dinner. Mr. Henry started to New Found this morning. Will not be back tonight & perhaps not till Monday. Warm & pleasant. Peach trees will soon be in full bloom, they are not killed 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 29, 1668
(Lord’s day). Up, and I to Church, where I have not been these many weeks before, and there did first find a strange Reader, who could not find in the Service-book the place for churching women, but was fain to change books with the clerke: and then a stranger preached, a seeming able man; but said in his pulpit that God did a greater work in raising of an oake-tree from an akehorne, than a man’s body raising it, at the last day, from his dust (shewing the possibility of the Resurrection): which was, methought, a strange saying. At home to dinner, whither comes and dines with me W. Howe, and by invitation Mr. Harris and Mr. Banister, most extraordinary company both, the latter for musique of all sorts, the former for everything: here we sang, and Banister played on the theorbo, and afterwards Banister played on his flageolet, and I had very good discourse with him about musique, so confirming some of my new notions about musique that it puts me upon a resolution to go on and make a scheme and theory of musique not yet ever made in the world. Harris do so commend my wife’s picture of Mr. Hales’s, that I shall have him draw Harris’s head; and he hath also persuaded me to have Cooper draw my wife’s, which, though it cost 30l., yet I will have done. Thus spent the afternoon most deliciously, and then broke up and walked with them as far as the Temple, and there parted, and I took coach to Westminster, but there did nothing, meeting nobody that I had a mind to speak with, and so home, and there find Mr. Pelling, and then also comes Mrs. Turner, and supped and talked with us, and so to bed. I do hear by several that Sir W. Pen’s going to sea do dislike the Parliament mightily, and that they have revived the Committee of Miscarriages to find something to prevent it; and that he being the other day with the Duke of Albemarle to ask his opinion touching his going to sea, the Duchess overheard and come in to him, and asks W. Pen how he durst have the confidence to offer to go to sea again, to the endangering the nation, when he knew himself such a coward as he was, which, if true, is very severe.
*(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.)