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, January 3, 2015

June 21 - 27, 1947 Francis Woodbury Missing



Saturday, June 21, 1947

Nice day for the first day of summer. Francis Woodbury missing. Cleaned up the house. Picked some more ripe berries.



Sunday, June 22, 1947

Very nice day. Jack and Sylvia married. Bill lame. We mowed and trimmed grass. Pick some more ripe strawberries. Bill Ridlon family called, lost his cow.



Monday, June 23, 1947

Another nice day. Bill didn’t work, still lame. Blanche and I downtown.



Tuesday, June 24, 1947

Social Security man here today. Nice hot day. I cleaned up the house.



Wednesday, June 25, 1947

It rained hard all day. Bill did not work.



Thursday, June 26, 1947

Nice hot day. Dorothea and I cleaned at Seabee’s. Billie and Betty picked 14 quarts strawberries.



Friday, June 27, 1947

Hot again. Dorothea and I finished cleaning at Seabee’s cottage. Betty went to movies with Blanche. Shafers called in eve.


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