May 6
Laura M., age 15, North Carolina
May 6, 1997
I slept good as hell last night! Got up and went to school — DUH! Normal day, nothing special. I want Chris… Eddie picked me up and we gave Karen a ride home. Mom was having a meeting so I had to stay cooped up in her room and do my homework. We had a hodgepodge dinner. Talked to Brittany on the phone. Cleaned kitchen. Talked to Courtney. Wrote note to Mom.
Mark S., age 36, North Carolina
May 6, 1989
Up with Rebecca (2 weeks old) from 1 to 2:15 A.M. to help Sandra with breast-feeding. Back to sleep => up with Rebecca ~ 7 A.M. => held her & watched T.V. Med. journal. To West Variety => home. Newspaper. Folded & put away clothes. Went thru office mail. Phone from Pam Blanks (she vomiting & late on menstrual period). Phone to Ticketron to buy Who tickets => phone to Druscie. Paid bills. Held & sang to Rebecca. Pam brought lasagna over for my lunch. T.V. tennis = Agassi > Krickstein in Tournament of Champions. “Nap” with Sandra. Taped “A Star Is Born”. Phone to Kenny & Druscie re getting together tonite. To Northwoods Park for Cary City tennis tourney, but courts too wet. To ABC store => to Provisions to get coffee for Sandra => West Variety => home; just missed call from Emily (in Savannah @ Prather’s). Mapped out route for country roads ride ~ Wake Co. (car rides soothing for fussy Rebecca). Phone to Ernie Hylton => he out in yard & never returned my call. * To K & D’s with S & R for drinks (Wild Turkey, Amaretto), talk, play with Tom (3 years old), popcorn, ice hockey (I won, 5-1), etc. Home ~ 11:00. Sat up with & bathed fussy Rebecca until Sandra fed her ~ 1 A.M.
Anna L., age 75, Illinois
May 6, 1960
Had worked all day. At noon Lo went for eggs. Pink called at noon. Said K.J. wanted to come down and did at 7:30. We hurried in to meet train. Stayed up late to watch TV.
Marcy S., age 19, Missouri
May 6, 1944
Still cold. Card from Mum saying I could buy my spectators here. I was looking forward to practicing all last night and really accomplished a lot this morn. I still feel so gloriously different and I know it is not a false alarm. Mr. Berry fascinates me. In afternoon Betty and I went to town. Couldn’t get spectators I wanted. Back and studied. Good dinner. Ironed and Betty went to library. About 8:30 we went over and stood with crowd in front of auditorium waiting for the 1st faculty show to be over. Val was up farther and said she’d save us a seat. We stood there til after 9 — I looked at a tree nearby that was just coming out into leaf and there were 2 tiny stars at the tip of 2 branches. I felt so much a part of all the kids and it was wonderful! About 9 the big push got under way and how any of us got into that place in one piece is beyond me!! But we finally made it and Val. had held seats for us. The “faculty revue” was a scream. Especially Mr. Miller as a ballet dancer — and the fashion show. We just roared!! Out about 10:30. To bed late. Somewhat milder.
Kate S., age 25, Michigan
May 6, 1887
The Dr. made his last visit unless something else happens. Baby was good this forenoon, but has cried a good deal this afternoon. Uncle R. washed for Ma this morning. Don’t know what we should do without him. Effie and Geo. drove up this morning.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Cornelia H., age 25, North Carolina
May 6, 1862
I finished that dress & began another, a yellow muslin for Willie. Jim came up from the mill dam at dinner & told that old Mr. Reynolds had found a dead man in the creek about his place, just below about 1 mile. Mr. Henry went soon as dinner was done. They got him out & think it was an old man that staid here a month or more ago by the name of Serratt. It is thought he fell off the bridge & was night. I expect he was coming here to stay all night again. He was swollen very tight & Mr. Henry said smelled awful. Poor old man. No friend is by to see that he is lain away decently. He stays alone this night in the old Hendrix house. They hold the inquest tomorrow. Dr. Neilson came this evening, left some medicine for Atheline. She is no better.
*(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 36, London
May 6, 1669
Up, and by coach to Sir W. Coventry’s, but he gone out. I by water back to the Office, and there all the morning; then to dinner, and then to the Office again, and anon with my wife by coach to take the ayre, it being a noble day, as far as the Greene Man, mightily pleased with our journey, and our condition of doing it in our own coach, and so home, and to walk in the garden, and so to supper and to bed, my eyes being bad with writing my journal, part of it, to-night.
*(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.)