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!

Friday, November 21, 2014

August 24 - 30, 1946



Saturday, August 24, 1946

Nice day. Esther, Mrs. L and Grace up here for dinner. Esther stayed all night. Broke rear ex in the car. Got grain tonight.


Sunday, August 25, 1946


Mrs. Ludlow and Grace and all here except Bill went over to Twin Bridges for outdoor picnic. Had a swell time. Full week.


Monday, August 26, 1946

We washed. Rain in p.m. awful hard. Milan and Bill home early.


Tuesday, August 27, 1946

Rained hard all day. Mama, Milan and I went to town. I bought some glasses and a basin. Es and friends left for Ohio. Es hated to go back.



Wednesday, August 28, 1946

Fair. We washed. Ironed. Fern and Lloyd called in evening, brought up some fish.



Thursday, August 29, 1946

Hot and very bad showers p.m. We ironed, canned rhubarb. Papa down in p.m. during showers. He stayed for supper.



Friday, August 30, 1946

Next day. Quite cool. Billie and I picked beans at Ferns. Mama canned corn. Milan picked blackberries on powerline. Joy here all day.


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