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Diary of a 14 year old boy in the 8th and 9th grades who lived near Groversville, New York. Entries center around his school and extracurricular activities though he sometimes mentions his father and mother. He is on the baseball team and gives quick rundowns of the games, plus the results of professional team games. After school activities usually involve playing sports – football, baseball, tennis, basketball, marbles - with his friends or his school teams. In the evenings he goes to movies, usually giving the title and his opinion, and listens to fights or Sherlock Holmes on the radio. He is a Boy Scout. He attends Sunday School. During the summer he swims, takes a trip to Portland, Maine, reads and plays baseball, tennis and croquet. Gives weather for many days.Inside front cover and first page:Lists “Girls I have Liked” from the 1st to the 8th grade, positions on sport teams, “president of 8th grade” and “2nd Class Boy Scout.”Begins January entries with accounting of money made doing shoveling. February 11“Jumped off roof with Don and Ray.February 17“Went to Catholic supper before movie with Dad last night.”March 12“Pimples worse.”April 5“Lot of girls joined church.”June 8“Got sent to office by Miss Woodely. I have to see…after school. Only 1 week more.”June 14“Aunt Mary died. Gosh I’m sorry, but she would have suffered had she lived.”June 19“Went to graduation…12 graduated…Dad says its one of the milestones of your life.”July 20Took trip to Portland, Maine and a beach.Aug 3"…only weighed 127. Got some apples and played croquet after supper. Listened to the radio. Went to bed. So long.”August 27“Put up heavy punching bag. Lot of fellows down.”September 28“Mom’s birthday. She’s 41. One darn good Mom.”November 17Vivien S….stayed with her awhile. She’s not so bad.”December 25“...went up to Bebes. Dad drunk. Broke promise to me with a week to go. Made me feel bad. Sort of spoiled Christmas."

Diary of an unidentified young man of Middlesex County, Ma., who was a landscaper and a fireman. The following description was provided by the seller:"He writes of hearing the fire alarms go off, rushing to the fires and the details of putting it out ....he writes of town meetings he attends and of the discussions at those meetings, landscaping projects he works on, listening to football games, talking to his father about going to college, descriptions of people in the town,the Lindbergh flight, his mom being taught to drive a car by his nephew (who doesn't want her to drive), taking many trips to Wakefield, local news, etc."For excerpts from the diary, also provided by the seller, please see folder link below.

Diary, 1937-1941 of Lloyd Hartman (1913-1987) of Spokane, Washington. Entries are fairly regular for the years 1937-1940 and record daily activities, weather and health. The writes mentions social outings, like visits to movies, his work at a bank and occasionally comments on the world-political situation. The following description was provided by the seller:"The diary was started in 1937 when he was in his early 20's. Each page has entries for five years but most are filled out for 1937-1940 only. Most of October's pages are blank. The writer tells of his daily life, schooling, jobs, CCC work, his girlfriend, weather, football scores, travels around the area in Washington and Idaho, movies, restaurants and the start of WW II. A few entries are in shorthand as he was a business student."Also includes a photograph of an unidentified woman.

Papers of Stephen Pregun (1904-1985) of Passaic, New Jersey, including a diary, 1927-1929; a minute book for the American Rusin Falcon Chorus, New York District, Passaic Branch, 1927-1929, for which Stephen Pregun was secretary from 1928-1929; and a notepad, 1924, recording the work of a debt collector. It has not been determined if Stephen Pregun is the creator of the latter item as well.The diary is very detailed and contains daily entries regarding work, church, family (he lives with his parents and sister) and social activities, as well as personal accounts listing his wages and itemized spending. Names and addresses of friends are listed in the back as is a key to abbreviated names used throughout the diary. He also talks about his courtship and subsequent engagement.The American Rusin Chorus' Minute Book starts out with a few pages probably written in the language spoken by the ethnic Rusin group that made up the chorus. Rusin (or Ruthenian) is an east-Slavic language that was spoken by ethnic groups from Karpaty Ukraine, Slovakia, Hungary as well as of parts of the former Yugoslavia.For a more detailed description see folder links below.