November 28
Mark S., age 62, North Carolina
November 28, 2015
Woke up ~8:15; talked to Janet while she got dressed; multi-player iPhone Hearts in bed = 1st; up ~8:45; talked to Janet, Artie, and Barry (coffee); to Food Lion for groceries, champagne (bought Rolling Stones special edition on the albums of Bob Dylan for X-mas present for Sarah) => home; cut up squash (mimosas) while watching NFL channel; cooked squash; watched Netflix show “The Roosevelts” with Julie and Tad while grating carrots and dicing celery and onion (mimosas); put squash casserole together (Tad and Julie went for sour cream at Trader Joe’s); unloaded/loaded dishwasher with Janet; swept kitchen, foyer, living room and dining room floors; helped Janet get tables ready for dinner (T.V. football = Duke vs. WFU); vacuumed living room rug and sofa; got chairs from basement; Tad and Julie got chairs from rafters in garage; blew leaves off deck, again (Barry had done it earlier); *Rebecca came over (mimosas on deck; talk; played Cornhole with Rebecca; talk on deck with everyone (~70 degree day!)), then Sarah and Whitman (Sarah tearful after visiting Mike Thor (on vent) in hospital after motorcycle accident (Whitman and I put rug I’d bought from him for Janet’s X-mas in trunk of my car), Kenny and Druscie, Jack and Lily and Tom, Wendy and Eric (Bruce and Emma at work at Chick Filet)) => dinner with everyone and Artie, Julie, and Tad (Barry gone to meet tax client) (talk, White Russians, etc.); helped clear table; played Cornhole with Rebecca vs. Kenny and Jack (after they beat Tom and Lily) => they won; A.R. with Kenny => watched Janet and Jack > Tom and Lily (Cornhole); Bruce and Emma came over (Eric had left); watched parts of T.V. football (UNC vs. NCSU); Barry came “home” and ate; “bye” to Julie and Tad => to Athens; Cornhole with Artie vs. Wendy and Bruce (25-0!); “bye” to Sarah, Whitman, and Rebecca, then to Jack and Lily; ping-pong in basement with Bruce (22-20, 23-21, 10-21) while Janet relaxed on sofa in basement and Emma slept on divan in living room; Kenny came down to basement (and Druscie) => talked to them and Janet while Tom and Bruce played ping-pong (Bruce won); “bye” to Kenny and Druscie and Tom (Kenny and Druscie took Tom home to Carrboro); T.V. football = UNC vs. NCSU while Wendy and Bruce played ping-pong and Emma slept (Wendy won x2); end of UNC > NCSU; “bye” to Wendy, Bruce and Emma; helped Janet clean up in kitchen (talked to Barry => he to bed with headache); to bed with Janet ~7:30! => Netflix movie = “Basic Instinct” (Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone) (“cuddled”); watched episode of “Master of None” (she scratched my back); Janet to sleep => me with insomnia => end of T.V. football = Oklahoma > Oklahoma State (multi-player iPhone Hearts = 1st); sleep.
Laura M., age 15, North Carolina
November 28, 1997
We woke up at 12:00! Showered. Played Nintendo. Mom came at 3:30. Got paycheck cashed. Ate lunch. Mmm… Raked. Steven and Bryan came 2 Dad’s again. We all (4) went 2 Wellspring. Came back and watched "Men in Black.” They left about 10:00. Talked 2 Renée (Luke).
Marcy S., age 14, Tennessee
November 28, 1938
Woke about 5:30. Didn’t sleep very well. M. let me sleep longer so I didn’t practice. Walked to school with Bobby. Quite cool. We had chapel in the old building and then High school marched down to the new building. Mildred Tilley was tardy. They gave us 15 mins. to look around the building. Very nice. Mary’s room and my room aren’t as near to each other as in the old building. About 9:00 classes started. Not very long Latin class. Made 93 on test. Then Home Ec. Beautiful big rooms and plenty of tables. Carolyn and I at same one. We all have lockers. Then Algebra. Home for dinner. Walked with Bobby. Daddy not home. “Legion Airs” came. Back to school with Bobby. Study period in large bright library. A lot of us sat at the same table. English in another class room. Then I took my lesson from Mrs. Moore at 2:30 in the old building. Different room. Larger. Came back to other building and studied at the same table with Mary till school was out. We talked awhile after school and then went home. I played some pieces in “Legion Airs” and then did my own practicing. About 5:00 I was thru so I studied. Daddy came. After supper and the dishes I got ready for bed and at 8:00 I listened to Lux Radio Theater. “Interference” with Herbert Marshall, Leslie Howard, Gail Patrick and Mary Astor. Very good. About blackmail. Then to bed.
Henry S., age 26, Michigan
November 28, 1887
It was cold this morning, 11o above 0 and it has been about there all day and is going to lower tonight. I got Mr. Morrow’s sleigh this forenoon and drew the rest of the wood up. I have it all under cover now. I engaged Mrs. Bilderback to come and do Kate’s washing tomorrow; her thumb is too sore to do such work. Went up town and got the mail and sent an order to Kibbe for pens and paper. Rode home with Mr. Huntington.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Abbie B., age 22, Kansas
November 28, 1871
Left Newton at 4 a.m. Stoped at Florance for breakfast. The ground was frozen and rough. Going to a restaurant for breakfast—one of my new shoes split from the lacing to the toe. When I got back to the cars, I was glad to put on my old shoes. Philip had planned a trip down to Indian Territory. Owing to our having ague so often he gave it up, and was disappointed that I did not see more of the Indians.
When I was leaving he told me about the Potawamies at St. Marys, and wanted me to go there if only for a day. I did not promise, but as we neared Topeka, I decided I would, knowing it would please him. Left my trunk at Topeka— got a ticket for Harrisburg for $38.50—with lay over priviledges.
Then a ticket for St. Marys 25 miles west. On the train I sat by a lady agent— She said they had been burned out in the great Chicago fire, and she had to do something to help her family. There is no hotel here—but we were directed to a private home where they sometimes took boarders— In the p.m. we visited one of the big Catholic Schools. There is some controversity now about the government withdrawing the help it gave the schools. We were only taken through halls—and to one empty class room, so were disappointed in not seeing and hearing a recitation. We walked around town, and saw many squaws and papoos.
*(kansasmemory.org, Kansas State Historical Society, copy and reuse restrictions apply)
Cornelia H., age 26, North Carolina
November 28, 1862
We over slept ourselves last night or this morning. I intended to get up at 4 as Mr. Henry thinks of starting back again to the hogs this morning & I wanted to finish his drawers. I sewed some on them before breakfast & finished them before the mail came, nearly nine when he got here. Mr. Henry spoke of going with the mail carrier but did not get off. Several people came in to the P. O. & about 11 o’clock Mrs. Winslow Smith & Mrs. Slagle came. They staid till near one. They came to get some turkeys. Got three at 1.50 each. Young ones. Mr. Henry eat dinner. I had him a nice cup of coffee for dinner. He started soon after eating. He will not get further than Mills River tonight. It is only 27 or 28 miles to where he is feeding. He thought he would be back here by next Wednesday anyway. I do hope he may get back. I miss him so much when he is gone. Mr. Henry sent Boyd to Asheville this morning to get some shirting. Had to give 55 cts. per yd. I cut Jim out a shirt of it. Some one stold the only good shirt the negro had a week ago.
*(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
November 28, 1667
Up, and at the office all this morning, and then home to dinner, and then by coach sent my wife to the King’s playhouse, and I to White Hall, there intending, with Lord Bruncker, Sir J. Minnes, and Sir T. Harvy to have seen the Duke of York, whom it seems the King and Queen have visited, and so we may now well go to see him. But there was nobody could speak with him, and so we parted, leaving a note in Mr. Wren’s chamber that we had been there, he being at the free conference of the two Houses about this great business of my Lord Chancellor’s, at which they were at this hour, three in the afternoon, and there they say my Lord Anglesey do his part admirablyably, and each of us taking a copy of the Guinny Company’s defence to a petition against them to the Parliament the other day. So I away to the King’s playhouse, and there sat by my wife, and saw “The Mistaken Beauty,” which I never, I think, saw before, though an old play; and there is much in it that I like, though the name is but improper to it — at least, that name, it being also called “The Lyer,” which is proper enough. Here I met with Sir. Richard Browne, who wondered to find me there, telling me that I am a man of so much business, which character, I thank God, I have ever got, and have for a long time had and deserved, and yet am now come to be censured in common with the office for a man of negligence.
*(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.)