October 1
Laura M., age 15, North Carolina
October 1, 1997
Today I said, “You can’t hate me 4ever.” He said, “Yeah, I can.” I wrote him a note and said at the end 4 him 2 call me/write me. He hasn’t called and it’s 10:00. He won’t write. Sean’s birthday. He failed his license test, though. :( Worked after school. Walked home. Dad picked me up. Stopped by Courtney’s. Ate. Showered. Watched 90210 and hoped the phone would ring. Nope.
Mark S., age 35, North Carolina
October 1, 1988
Up ~5:30 => packed van. *Drove to Red Springs with kids, Sandra, Mama. SS1 there. Sarah played with Lauren. Emily got 1st in fling, chantreuse, 2nd in flora, jig, and 1st in hornpipe. (Came in 2nd for trophy.) Home by ~3:30. Washed clothes and hung them out. Played whiffle ball with kids (Rassettes >Simpsons); played Nurf football with kids. Took Raven and Lauren home => home; supper at home with kids, Sandra, Mom (BBQ chicken). Monopoly (I won). Olympics on T.V.
Anna L., age 75, Illinois
October 1, 1960
Lo went to work, later I went over to see how things were and clean her part of porch and steps where men tracked. Lo went out to get kittens. Had found a home for them. Jim took care of Cooney’s kittens. Right now down to 4 but will be more soon. Did washing.
Marcy S., age 14, Tennessee
October 1, 1938
Nice but cool. Mother sick in bed with a cold. Went to my music lesson at 9:00. Came back, did my work and then went up to Helen’s. Played with the kitten till H. finished her bath. Went home to tell Mother I was going up to Scarbro’s with Helen and then went. Coming back I told H. that the only thing that could spoil Sat. was for Joe to come. When the meat and groceries came I put them away. A.B. and George built with A.B.’s blocks under G.’s tree while Allan, Helen and I built with my blocks on my sidewalk in the sun. Helen had to go home a min. and just after she left who should be coming across the street from Cummin’s but Joe! I wasn’t expecting him but somehow I wasn’t surprised to see him. I didn’t speak to him at first. I went up and told Helen and she came flying down. We talked nearly all morning. I rode A.B.’s tricycle and scooter. Allan and Joe got in a fuss (very amusing). Helen went home to dinner. Charles Walker came by on his bicycle and H. and G. rode. C. and Joe talked. Helen doesn’t like Joe anymore, either. About 1:00 Joe went home for dinner and I went in and got ready to go over to G.’s for dinner. He wouldn’t eat hardly a thing. His mother told him he’d better go down and ask the doctor if he was sick. (Daddy came for dinner.) After dinner Helen and I went down to the doctor’s with George. We had to wait quite awhile but finally G. went in and came out with the news that he had tonsillitis and had to go home and right to bed. We went home and Helen came in with me while I did the dishes and then I got my Latin. We then decided to go for a walk but first H. had to iron some so I went in with her till she finished. We then walked down on Morgan St. (Clay) and around by Elma’s house. We stopped and talked to her awhile and then thru town and up on Clinton Street where we talked to Grace Lizarddi. Daddy came by in the car and drove H. and I home on the running board. H. had to go home and I sat in the State car and read because D. had taken our car and gone to town. About 5:00 I went in and practiced a half hour. Then read and ate supper, when Dad came home. Afterward did the dishes, Sunday-school lesson, listened to radio and to bed.
Henry S., age 26, Michigan
October 1, 1887
Have been doing carpenter work today, built table this morning and put another window in the kitchen. Went up town just before dinner and got the mail and bought a high chair for the baby as she is beginning to pull herself almost out of her cart. I received the cards, which I ordered so long ago. Spent the most of this afternoon in making a cupboard for use in the kitchen. Received a letter from Ralph McAllaster written with a type writer.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Abbie B., age 22, Kansas
October 1, 1871
A beautiful morning. Two letters from home. They have kept us in papers—so we have kept track of the Franco Prussian War, ct. The Springers were here to day, Mr. S. is a tease. It seems to him I ought to marry one of these young men. I’d rather keep them as friends.
*(kansasmemory.org, Kansas State Historical Society, copy and reuse restrictions apply)
Cornelia H., age 26, North Carolina
October 1, 1862
Quilted all day. Nothing new going on. There has been some terrible battles lately. Our troops have been victorious & I sincerely hope may continue so. I have not heard a word from Dora & them since they left.
*(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 34, London
October 1, 1667
All the morning busy at the office, pleased mightily with my girle that we have got to wait on my wife. At noon dined with Sir G. Carteret and the rest of our officers at his house in Broad Street, they being there upon his accounts. After dinner took coach and to my wife, who was gone before into the Strand, there to buy a nightgown, where I found her in a shop with her pretty girle, and having bought it away home, and I thence to Sir G. Carteret’s again, and so took coach alone, it now being almost night, to White Hall, and there in the Boarded-gallery did hear the musick with which the King is presented this night by Monsieur Grebus, the master of his musick; both instrumentall — I think twenty-four violins — and vocall; an English song upon Peace. But, God forgive me! I never was so little pleased with a concert of musick in my life. The manner of setting of words and repeating them out of order, and that with a number of voices, makes me sick, the whole design of vocall musick being lost by it. Here was a great press of people; but I did not see many pleased with it, only the instrumental musick he had brought by practice to play very just. So thence late in the dark round by the wall home by coach, and there to sing and sup with my wife, and look upon our pretty girle, and so 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.)
Samuel P., age 27, London
October 1, 1660
Early to my Lord to Whitehall, and there he did give me some work to do for him, and so with all haste to the office.
Dined at home, and my father by chance with me.
After dinner he and I advised about hangings for my rooms, which are now almost fit to be hung, the painters beginning to do their work to-day. After dinner he and I to the Miter, where with my uncle Wight (whom my father fetched thither), while I drank a glass of wine privately with Mr. Mansell, a poor Reformado of the Charles, who came to see me.
Here we staid and drank three or four pints of wine and so parted.
I home to look after my workmen, and at night to bed.
The Commissioners are very busy disbanding of the army, which they say do cause great robbing. My layings out upon my house in furniture are so great that I fear I shall not be able to go through them without breaking one of my bags of 100l., I having but 200l. yet in the world.
*(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.)