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 19, 2015

October 11 - 17, 1947



Saturday, October 11, 1947

Had some good baked beans and hot rolls.



Sunday, October 12, 1947

Nice hot day. Forest fires raging.



Monday, October 13, 1947

Ed and I had a taxi, we went to town and Ed got his hair cut. I ironed.



Tuesday, October 14, 1947

I washed, done some cooking, cleaned. Mama and I went down to Dr. Sherburne’s tonight.



Wednesday, October 15, 1947

Cleaned the grain room. Went to town to get the license for car. Hot.



Thursday, October 16, 1947

We cleaned house.



Friday, October 17, 1947

Nice day. Cleaned Mama and Ed’s rooms today. Another hot day.

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