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!

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

March 9 - 15, 1946 Tapping Maple Trees



Saturday, March 9, 1946

Rained most all day. Bill didn’t work. Wind blowed awful hard tonight. Billie and Val went to the movies. Charlotte had a baby girl.



Sunday, March 10, 1946

Kennard  and Dolores called also Fern and Lloyd. Cooler today. Billie and Val went to the show tonight.



Monday, March 11, 1946

We washed. Cloudy and cold today. Bill back to work. Hired out with Jim today for the summer. Sent camera film today.



Tuesday, March 12, 1946

Nice day. Mama went back down to Ferns. Mama and Milan called at Dot and Forrest. Got first letter from Brud. Dolores up in p.m. George Staley arrested.



Wednesday, March 13, 1946

Very warm. I went up to Minnie’s in a.m. Milan tapped maple tree. Bill down to Kennie’s last night. Down town tonight.



Thursday, March 14, 1946

Billie tapped trees this morning. Very nice weather. Snow going so fast.



Friday, March 15, 1946

Another nice day. Billie took Holstein cow up to Chet Edson’s to his Guernsey bull.



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