The blog posts below are taken from my grandmother's diaries. Althea Green Smith Crook was lovingly referred to as Nanny to her immediate family ~ thus her diaries are called Nanny's Diaries.

Nanny wrote in her diaries when she remembered to - mostly in the evening. There will be some years in which she didn't keep diaries and there will also be some days/weeks in her yearly diaries in which she skipped or forgot to write in them. For the most part, these are her words - written as she wrote them. There will be typos, forgotten punctuation, and other grammatical errors - but I am rewriting these as my Nanny originally wrote them.

As with all old handwriting, there are some entries that I can't quite make out - and these entries will be followed with a (?) to signify that this may or may not be correct or I can't figure out what she is trying to write.

Thank you Nanny for leaving us 50 years worth of memories! We miss you!

Saturday, August 9, 2014

August 26 - September 1, 1944



Saturday, August 26, 1944

Mama awful sick. Did regular work went to town.



Sunday, August 27, 1944

Bill and Billie went to New Gloucester to get a bull. $35 mixed breed. Mama still quite sick. Dorothea came home from Ferns.


 

Monday, August 28, 1944

Mama felt better this afternoon, but not so good tonight. Dolores got a letter from Carlton. Got one from Milan today from Fort Benning Georgia, gone into the paratroopers.



Tuesday, August 29, 1944

Nice day. Went to town Dolores went with us. Nice day.



Wednesday, August 30, 1944

Went up to Minnie’s in eve. Nice day.



Thursday, August 31, 1944

Went to town, got rest of canning sugar. Nice day. Kennard and Dolores got another letter from Carlton. Mama up and dressed felt much better.



Friday, September 1, 1944

We canned 9 pints of corn and 3 pints succotash. Kind of rainy. Got a letter from Jack.

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