March 4
Laura M., age 15, North Carolina
March 4, 1998
Felt like crap again & decided I needed a hair cut. Saw Larson on the road when Sandra was taking me to work. Aahh!! Worked with Erin (new) & Kristy. Erin took me home. Got 2 Dad’s. Ate. Went 2 JCPenney’s & got hair cut! Short. Did some homework.
Laura M., age 14, North Carolina
March 4, 1997
Sean was kind of a jerk today, or not as nice as usual. My day sucked all together, anyway. Went home with Renee. Came home, did homework, took Lucy on walk and talked to Alex! (Whoa.) Came home and played guitar. Ate dinner. Talked to Karen, Courtney. Did Jane Fonda some. Watched “Mad About You.”
Mark S., age 36, Virginia & North Carolina
March 4, 1989
(In Williamsburg after driving there last nite with Emily, Sarah, and Melanie Stammely): Up ~ 6 AM with kids. Packed van. Breakfast with kids at Holiday Inn. Doug and Emily Kirkton sat beside us; newspaper. To Williamsburg Lodge by ~ 8 AM for Scottish dancing competition. To gift shop with Sarah and Melanie to buy coloring book for Sarah. Phone to Pickett Miles (my youth pastor from high school days). Newspaper. Journal. * Emily won first place in Fling & Sword dance & 2nd in Full Tullock. ** Pickett & Helen Miles met me at Williamsburg Lodge for ~ 45 minute talk; Helen met Emily & Sarah for first time. Phone to Tom Stammely. Left Williamsburg ~ noon; played “sign alphabet” game & Trivial Pursuit enroute => home ~ 3:45. Sandra & Kay Walker had hung pictures on walls of stairway, bedroom, etc. To East Cary Jr. H.S. for adult league basketball game vs. purple team (we won by two; I scored five points); E & S & Melanie watched game; Sandra came for fourth quarter and sat with Peg Berry. To Stammely’s (not home); radio B- ball = NCSU beat WFU in 4 O.T.’s. To Mazzio’s with Sandra and kids (too crowded) => supper at Applebee’s => to drugstore for hemorrhoid ointment for Sandra; Melanie hit me with snowball. Took Melanie home; TV, talk with Stammelys. Home ~ 9:15. Kids to bed. Listened to music in bed with Sandra.
Anna L., age 75, Illinois
March 4, 1960
Lo and Jim went out between 12 and 1. It had been plowed out. However it was blown full again when Geo and Lo went out later and got stuck. Ate at home. Got every thing ready for Geo to leave in the A.M. when Einer came to town so won’t go for a few days until he takes care of his business and all will go together.
Marcy S., age 19, Missouri
March 4, 1944
Cold, cloudy, windy. Volunteered to report on Dewey’s Experience and Nature for philosophy in spite of Mr. Berry’s discouraging remarks! He said I might be smarter than he was though — oh yes! Good lunch but didn’t stay for dessert. Betty’s mother sent a loaf of nut bread in laundry bag. Yum, yum. Betty and I went to town after lunch. Back and I worked on book report til dinner time. Got thoroughly disgusted. Check from home ($25). Good dinner at M.J.’s table. Carolyn Parke is a card! At 7 Betty and I went to cinema lab. and saw Frederick March in The Buccaneer. I saw it years ago — it was wonderful!! Long picture. Back to hall. Mary and Kath. came down for some nut bread. Betty was too quiet. Kath. said something about marrying Paul and Betty landed into her about her self-centeredness. Kath. took it admirably and kept trying to get Betty to give her examples of her self-centeredness. Then Betty pretended she had just been kidding Kath. and tried to back out. I was so mad and ashamed for her that I couldn’t say a word. After the way she talked last night she couldn’t have been kidding and it seemed a cowardly thing to do. In the first place Betty is no angel herself and I remember sticking my neck out once in a similar situation — oh boy! Well, Mary and Kath. soon left unsatisfied and I ironed and washed my hair and said not a word. Betty talked a little but gave it up as a bad job. I was more disappointed than mad but thought silence the best way to avoid a scene. Betty went up to borrow Mary’s radio later and stayed and stayed. About 11:30 I went up, being all ready for bed and found them discussing race problem. Betty had evidently redeemed herself somewhat so I warmed up. We continued the discussion and really cornered Kath. who admits she doesn’t know the facts but is willing to learn. It just doesn’t do to make judgments no matter how long you’ve known a person or how well you think you know him. To bed about 12:30.
Marcy S., age 16, Missouri
March 4, 1941
Cold, cloudy, windy. Hardest history exam ever. Latin not so hard. Typing made 92 on first test, 61 (!) on second. Didn’t have to hand in second one. Finished reading Latin material in study hall. Finished typing. Everything went wrong today. Music lesson -- Mrs. Marsh still slightly on war path. Worked on and completed Latin booklet -- have had six weeks. Just like me to leave things to the last minute! Joe Posey came at night and took two pictures of me for Chattanooga Free Press -- me and my poem. Help! To bed late. Pop to Legion meeting. Hate to think of test grades.
Henry S., age 26, Michigan
March 4, 1888
I managed to get around to take Jimmie to the creek to water this morning and give him a chance to stretch his limbs. Went to church today. It was pleasant but cold. I called on the Neill’s this afternoon. Have been thinking today that if I can get any-one to care for the place. Maybe I would go to the Oberlin school of Penmanship the coming summer. Wrote a letter to cousin Ida Spoor and one to ma tonight.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Henry S., age 25, Michigan
March 4, 1887
I got up and made the fires this morning and shaved before breakfast. It was cold this morning. I went over and sawed wood all the forenoon. Mr. Olson and Mr. Huntington finished cutting up 10 cords of wood for me this forenoon and I paid them for it. I had to come right home after school and write the names of the charter members of the new G.A.R. Post being bargained here today, on their Charter is a comrade asked me if I would and of course I would.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Cornelia H., age 26, North Carolina
March 4, 1863
Crocheted some today from some patterns Matt has. They are very pretty. Very cold & disagreeable today. Mr. Henry came just after dinner, came by Smith’s tan yard. Got two sides of sole leather & sent Tom after another side at the tan yard. Fannie still spinning some. Betsey getting on very well with her weaving.
*(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
March 4, 1862
I made some tatten till near dinner & then cut me out two chemise. I went to Mrs. Fanning’s in the evening. I hemmed a frill for one chemise. I heard today that Mr. Henry would be home tonight with a corpse from the 25th reg. unit, a young Chris Coffle of Haywood. He leaves a wife but no little ones to mourn his loss. Tom & Frady, the man that hauled him came this evening. Mr. Henry will be at home the last of the week. They brought in my pretty statue for little Cora’s grave. All are well. Nothing new going 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 4, 1668
Up betimes and with Sir W. Pen in his coach to White Hall, there to wait upon the Duke of York and the Commissioners of the Treasury, [Sir] W. Coventry and Sir John Duncombe, who do declare that they cannot find the money we demand, and we that less than what we demand will not set out the fleet intended, and so broke up, with no other conclusion than that they would let us have what they could get and we would improve that as well as we could. So God bless us, and prepare us against the consequences of these matters. Thence, it being a cold wet day, I home with Sir J. Minnes in his coach, and called by the way at my bookseller’s and took home with me Kercher’s Musurgia — very well bound, but I had no comfort to look upon them, but as soon as I come home fell to my work at the office, shutting the doors, that we, I and my clerks, might not be interrupted, and so, only with room for a little dinner, we very busy all the day till night that the officers met for me to give them the heads of what I intended to say, which I did with great discontent to see them all rely on me that have no reason at all to trouble myself about it, nor have any thanks from them for my labour, but contrarily Brouncker looked mighty dogged, as thinking that I did not intend to do it so as to save him. This troubled me so much as, together with the shortness of the time and muchness of the business, did let me be at it till but about ten at night, and then quite weary, and dull, and vexed, I could go no further, but resolved to leave the rest to to-morrow morning, and so in full discontent and weariness did give over and went home, with[out] supper vexed and sickish to bed, and there slept about three hours, but then waked, and never in so much trouble in all my life of mind, thinking of the task I have upon me, and upon what dissatisfactory grounds, and what the issue of it may be to me.
*(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.)