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!

Thursday, October 23, 2014

February 2 - 8, 1946



Saturday, February 2, 1946

Did regular work. Billie went to movies. Milan went away. Shavings came from Murray.



Sunday, February 3, 1946

Very cold. Billie cleaned out chicken pens. Jack, Sylvia, Barbra called a few minutes. Carlton and Kennard called. Mama came home.



Monday, February 4, 1946

We washed. Mama went back down to Ferns. Milan didn’t work tonight. Very cold and windy.



Tuesday, February 5, 1946

Very cold. Billie didn’t work. He & Milan cleaned out chicks. Went down to the woods on snowshoes. Raymond Allen called in eve.



Wednesday, February 6, 1946

Cloudy, warmer and rainy. Bill didn’t work. Dorothea’s Playmate magazine came. Got chemical for toilet. Carlton left for Florida tonight.



Thursday, February 7, 1946

Bill back over to Jim’s to work.



Friday, February 8, 1946

Mama came home from Ferns tonight. Nice day. Betty and I here alone most of the day. Jack called in eve.

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