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!

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

July 19 - 25, 1947



Saturday, July 19, 1947

Finished picking strawberries. Canned some and made some jam. Very hot.



Sunday, July 20, 1947

Nice day. Goden up here and mowed all day. Bill and Evelyn Ridlon called and wanted us to go to movies.



Monday, July 21, 1947

Washed and ironed. Billie didn’t work. Rayburn here all day. Grover finished hauling slabs.



Tuesday, July 22, 1947

Rained. Bill home and worked on tractor. Rayburn here all day. Blanche and Joy here in a.m. Dorothea over there in PM.



Wednesday, July 23, 1947

Billie took cow up to Chet’s. His big one.



Thursday, July 24, 1947

Betty got her hair cut at Joan’s. Looks good. Blanche took us down.



Friday, July 25, 1947

Goden here all day. They got the tractor going. I went blueberrying.

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