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!

Sunday, August 10, 2014

September 2 - 8, 1944



Saturday, September 2, 1944

Went to town. Bill came home with his arm bandaged.



Sunday, September 3, 1944

Bill’s arm awful lame, pained him all day. Kennard and Dolores called in p.m. a few minutes, brought a suit up to Bill. Billie went to the top of Speckled Mountain with Ray Allen. Guernsey cow bred.



Monday, September 4, 1944

Dolores came up we canned corn. Took x-ray of Bill’s arm at the first aid room at the shipyard. Fern, Lloyd, and Muriel called in p.m.



Tuesday, September 5, 1944

Rain today. Our well went dry. Called up to Minnie’s this eve. Began to get my new room ready upstairs.




Wednesday, September 6, 1944

Mama up to Dolores’s this p.m. Nice day. I did regular work.



Thursday, September 7, 1944

Did regular work. Nice day.



Friday, September 8, 1944

I did regular work. Day stay.Nice Day.

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