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!

Monday, January 5, 2015

July 5 - 11, 1947



Saturday, July 5, 1947

Nice day. We picked a lot of berries. I cleaned up the house and mowed grass. Picked berries.



Sunday, July 6, 1947

Rained in a.m. Cleared in PM. Sold crate of berries to Ralph Abbott. Bill worked at Lloyd’s and on his tractor. Billie finished mowing grass.



Monday, July 7, 1947

Pick strawberries. Hot today. Cannell came up here and picked berries.



Tuesday, July 8, 1947

We washed and pick some berries.



Wednesday, July 9, 1947

Dorothea and I picked berries. Alone today.



Thursday, July 10, 1947

We picked berries.



Friday, July 11, 1947

Picked strawberries.


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