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, December 19, 2014

March 8 - 14, 1947



Saturday, March 8, 1947

Very nice day. Temperature up to about 60°. I baked some red kidney beans, rolls, Indian pudding and brown bread. Very good. Roger Lewis called.



Sunday, March 9, 1947

Bill worked at Lloyd’s. Stormed. Roger Lewis brought the Jersey cow over we swapped the car for. Sara up all day. Dorothea dentist.



Monday, March 10, 1947

Still storming. We washed. Billie led the Lewis cow up to Chet’s. The old Ford went tonight. Billie’s pants came from Sears.



Tuesday, March 11, 1947

Fair and warm. Bill and I went up to Walt Lords. Billie downtown in eve.



Wednesday, March 12, 1947

Nice day. Dorothea walked home from Brownie meeting.



Thursday, March 13, 1947

Nice day. Papa here in p.m. and for supper. Bill to town today. He fixed Bob’s truck. Fern and Lloyd called in eve. No fire in furnace today.



Friday, March 14, 1947

Rained hard all day. Warm. Bill and Bob went up to (?) Quincy’s in p.m. snow gone a lot. Papa called again today.



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