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, November 1, 2014

April 6 - 12, 1946



Saturday, April 6, 1946

Cold and cloudy. Bill and Billie hauled dressing and pulverized. Horse is a good worker. Mama came home from Ferns. I ironed. Milan packed his suitcase.



Sunday, April 7, 1946

Cold and windy. Bill and Billie hauled the dressing. Horse worked good.



Monday, April 8, 1946

Bill and I to Portland, Bill went down to see Dr. Martin for his feet. Told him to come when he is lame again. We went in Kennard’s car. Cold.



Tuesday, April 9, 1946

Snowed and rained. Bill went over to Jim’s but didn’t work came home. Hauled dressing in a.m., fixed cart in p.m. Papa came over to see about pension and Milan left tonight by plane for Florida.



Wednesday, April 10, 1946

Cold and windy. Milan landed at Florida today.




Thursday, April 11, 1946

I went down to Ferns, she made me three new dresses.



Friday, April 12, 1946

We washed. Billie went smelting with Raymond Allen. School closed tonight for 10 days vacation.
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