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 17, 2015

September 27 - October 3, 1947



Saturday, September 27, 1947

Very cold. Started a furnace fire. Bill down to Les Mill’s today. Bill only worked half-day. Blynn Davis and daughter called.



Sunday, September 28, 1947

Blynn Davis folks called and said goodbye to Ed. Bill dug some potatoes. Billie finished them. Cold. Bill sick.



Monday, September 29, 1947

Bill and I went to town in a.m. He didn’t work only half a day. I washed. Billie’s pictures came. Very good.





Tuesday, September 30, 1947

We made mincemeat. Blanche over here all day and she made some. She helped us all day. Blanche worked up to John Linscotts.



Wednesday, October 1, 1947

We canned up the pickles. I washed floor.



Thursday, October 2, 1947

Billie went to Fryeburg Fair with Chet and in evening with Wayne and Glenn. Mama awfully lame because of a fall she got.



Friday, October 3, 1947

Nice day. Washed. Mama still lame. Billie over Fryeburg Fair with Raymond Allen. A moose went through here today.

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