March 6
Laura M., age 15, North Carolina
March 6, 1998
Chris wasn’t in English today ’cause he was skipping, thank goodness. But I was also a bit disappointed — it was gonna be interesting. Em picked me up & took me 2 work. I was real laid back. Dad came & took me 2 Ashley’s. We went 2 “Michael’s” & then worked on project. Got frustrated & quit. Chrissi spent night, too. Fun.
Laura M., age 14, North Carolina
March 6, 1997
The days keep getting worse. Zack was a big help today with the Sean-thing. I tried to kind of ignore him some. Em picked me up and said I need to just tell him off with what’s on my mind. Took Lucy on a walk. Did homework. Watched story. Went to Jasper’s with Em and Ed. Watched TV at Eddie’s. Tomorrow…
Mark S., age 37, North Carolina
March 6, 1990
Up ~6:30. Fed and bathed Rebecca. Looked in trash for tax organizer => not find it. Took Rebecca to D.CC => to office. Saw Ellen Yerby with Lauren (resolving sinusitis). Newspaper. Phone from Sandra at lunch. Filed articles. Started letter to Greg Galloway’s principal re his seizure disorder. Desk work after hours. SS1 brought Emily and Sarah to office after shopping for new Sarah clothes. Home ~6:15. Supper with Emily and Sarah, Sandra and Rebecca. Cleaned kitchen. “Jeopardy” (I won). Played Frompers game at kitchen table with Emily and Sarah, Sandra. T.V. with Emily and Sarah, Sandra (“Who’s the Boss”). Put Sarah to bed with Rebecca. “The Wonder Years” with Em and Sandra. Put Em to bed with Rebecca. Talk in bed with Sandra. Made love.
Anna L., age 75, Illinois
March 6, 1960
Bright and sunny but cold, near zero. Picked Carrie up. She stayed to church. Had waffles at noon. Took her home at 3:30. Later went to the show. Cash McCall. Good. Came home and ate and watched T.V.
Marcy S., age 19, Missouri
March 6, 1944
Bright but very cold and windy. Practiced 2 hours in morn. Had sick headache and felt awful. Betty gave me some soda at noon. Good lunch. Studied during siesta. Piano lesson at 2. Miss Good Smith still had bad cold, not feeling well. At 3 I started in on that dreaded report again and was up and down by turns. Mary Jo and Eleanor went to K.C. today. Jane was going to show with us but couldn’t in end. We took out dinner permission but decided to go. Betty came back from Board of Pub. all up in air again. I poured out my literary troubles to her and she gave me some very good suggestions in regard to writing about style, etc. I sometimes think I’m just plain dumb. Good dinner. Right after Betty and I blew (!) down to Missouri to see Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine in “Jane Eyre.” Beautiful sunset but awfully windy and cold. Acting splendid, except Betty thought Joan F. portrayed Jane as too watery a character. But Orson Welles!! Picture seemed very short and I felt sort of hanging up in the air at the end. I think they could have produced a much more powerful ending and could have left out some of the details of her earlier life which were irrelevant. Had strange, restless, uncomfortable feeling rest of evening. Betty and I stopped at bus station and had fuss about who was to buy rolls. Had quite a fight on way home. Then she apologized. Studied history and to bed. Don’t like this feeling.
Marcy S., age 16, Tennessee
March 6, 1941
Cloudy, cool. Chapel. Actually had picture. Have terrible assignment in English, covering short story. Have to write an original one. Ooh! More reports in history. Grace said my hair looked so nice, and I don’t know how many people mentioned my picture in the paper. Nearly went to sleep in fifth study hall. Typed after school. Very cool to Jeanne G. Home and practiced. Mother to Legion meeting. In evening, read “Pudd’nhead Wilson.” Mrs. Moore phoned her congrats for my poem. She lost Ruth Mary’s address and I’ll have to get it from Bunny myself this time. Help! Rained at night. Nice. Oh, oh, here comes Mother! Lights out!
Henry S., age 26, Michigan
March 6, 1888
I went up town today in the morning to mail letters home letting them know we had received the sad news. I had no school today did not feel that I could teach. Mr. and Mrs. Waters called here this afternoon, they heard of Effie’s death by a letter from Webster. Kate has decided to go home the first of next week if she and Una are well enough and the weather will permit. I want them to be with ma for company in this terrible affliction.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Henry S., age 25, Michigan
March 6, 1887
Did not get up very early this morning. Went to the sugar camp with Fred after breakfast, to see his new evaporator, the snow is two feet deep on a level in the woods. We got ready and went to church when we got back. Mr. Waters preached a missionary sermon, in the interests of the home missions I signed 2 cents per week for this year. It has been quite warm all day, we did not wear any overcoats. I wrote a letter to ma and one to Kate telling them I don’t believe I can get down there this spring if I go into the store, and it looks as though I should do so. Have been reading in my Detroit Tribune today, I think I will like the paper.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Cornelia H., age 26, North Carolina
March 6, 1863
Mail brought nothing new. We all read generally nothing new in the papers. All are well. I have knit some today. Fannie baked some molasses bread this evening. Matt & I cut them out. They taste very well.
*(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 6, 1862
Cold & a real snow storm, the wind blew all day. It snowed a good deal. Fannie washed. Atheline got dinner. Willie made his first step alone this morning. He is very proud to try to walk. He is very large to his age. Pinck & Zona will play in the snow. All I can do. They are very fond of seeing their little tracks in it.
*(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 6, 1668
Up betimes, and with Sir D. Gawden to Sir W. Coventry’s chamber: where the first word he said to me was, “Good-morrow, Mr. Pepys, that must be Speaker of the Parliament-house:” and did protest I had got honour for ever in Parliament. He said that his brother, that sat by him, admires me; and another gentleman said that I could not get less than 1000l. a-year if I would put on a gown and plead at the Chancery-bar; but, what pleases me most, he tells me that the Sollicitor-Generall did protest that he thought I spoke the best of any man in England. After several talks with him alone, touching his own businesses, he carried me to White Hall, and there parted; and I to the Duke of York’s lodgings, and find him going to the Park, it being a very fine morning, and I after him; and, as soon as he saw me, he told me, with great satisfaction, that I had converted a great many yesterday, and did, with great praise of me, go on with the discourse with me. And, by and by, overtaking the King, the King and Duke of York come to me both; and he —[The King]— said, “Mr. Pepys, I am very glad of your success yesterday;” and fell to talk of my well speaking; and many of the Lords there. My Lord Barkeley did cry the up for what they had heard of it; and others, Parliament-men there, about the King, did say that they never heard such a speech in their lives delivered in that manner. Progers, of the Bedchamber, swore to me afterwards before Brouncker, in the afternoon, that he did tell the King that he thought I might teach the Sollicitor-Generall. Every body that saw me almost come to me, as Joseph Williamson and others, with such eulogys as cannot be expressed. From thence I went to Westminster Hall, where I met Mr. G. Montagu, who come to me and kissed me, and told me that he had often heretofore kissed my hands, but now he would kiss my lips: protesting that I was another Cicero, and said, all the world said the same of me. Mr. Ashburnham, and every creature I met there of the Parliament, or that knew anything of the Parliament’s actings, did salute me with this honour:— Mr. Godolphin;— Mr. Sands, who swore he would go twenty mile, at any time, to hear the like again, and that he never saw so many sit four hours together to hear any man in his life, as there did to hear me; Mr. Chichly,— Sir John Duncomb,— and everybody do say that the kingdom will ring of my abilities, and that I have done myself right for my whole life: and so Captain Cocke, and others of my friends, say that no man had ever such an opportunity of making his abilities known; and, that I may cite all at once, Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower did tell me that Mr. Vaughan did protest to him, and that, in his hearing it, said so to the Duke of Albemarle, and afterwards to W. Coventry, that he had sat twenty-six years in Parliament and never heard such a speech there before: for which the Lord God make me thankful! and that I may make use of it not to pride and vain-glory, but that, now I have this esteem, I may do nothing that may lessen it! I spent the morning thus walking in the Hall, being complimented by everybody with admiration: and at noon stepped into the Legg with Sir William Warren, who was in the Hall, and there talked about a little of his business, and thence into the Hall a little more, and so with him by coach as far as the Temple almost, and there ‘light, to follow my Lord Brouncker’s coach, which I spied, and so to Madam Williams’s, where I overtook him, and agreed upon meeting this afternoon, and so home to dinner, and after dinner with W. Pen, who come to my house to call me, to White Hall, to wait on the Duke of York, where he again and all the company magnified me, and several in the Gallery: among others, my Lord Gerard, who never knew me before nor spoke to me, desires his being better acquainted with me; and [said] that, at table where he was, he never heard so much said of any man as of me, in his whole life. We waited on the Duke of York, and thence into the Gallery, where the House of Lords waited the King’s coming out of the Park, which he did by and by; and there, in the Vane-room, my Lord Keeper delivered a message to the King, the Lords being about him, wherein the Barons of England, from many good arguments, very well expressed in the part he read out of, do demand precedence in England of all noblemen of either of the King’s other two kingdoms, be their title what it will; and did shew that they were in England reputed but as Commoners, and sat in the House of Commons, and at conferences with the Lords did stand bare. It was mighty worth my hearing: but the King did only say that he would consider of it, and so dismissed them. Thence Brouncker and I to the Committee of Miscarriages sitting in the Court of Wards, expecting with Sir D. Gawden to have been heard against Prince Rupert’s complaints for want of victuals. But the business of Holmes’s charge against Sir Jer. Smith, which is a most shameful scandalous thing for Flag officers to accuse one another of, and that this should be heard here before men that understand it not at all, and after it hath been examined and judged in before the King and Lord High Admirall and other able seamen to judge, it is very hard. But this business did keep them all the afternoon, so we not heard but put off to another day. Thence, with the Lieutenant of the Tower, in his coach home; and there, with great pleasure, with my wife, talking and playing at cards a little — she, and I, and W. Hewer, and Deb., and so, after a little supper, I 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.)