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 24, 2015

November 15 - 21, 1947



Saturday, November 15, 1947

We went to town in eve.



Sunday, November 16, 1947

Billie and Glenn Chadbourne on a week hunting trip up to Bill Ridlon’s camp at Sweden. Bill took them up.



Monday, November 17, 1947

Washed. Hung the clothes on porch for second time.



Tuesday, November 18, 1947

Dorothea home from school with a bad cold. I ironed.



Wednesday, November 19, 1947

Did regular work. Up to see Minnie’s nice stove and they got the telephone. Lin Hall fired the oil furnace. Dorothea still home.



Thursday, November 20, 1947

Chet got his heifer today. Fern and Lloyd called in eve. Esther’s birthday. Dorothea back to school. Bundle came from Sears.



Friday, November 21, 1947

Cold. I helped Blanche move some of her things. I washed. Sold the old hens to Sam Knight.


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