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!

Friday, February 13, 2015

April 3 - 9, 1948



Saturday, April 3, 1948

A very cold windy day. Bill and I went to town in eve and down to Jean’s.



Sunday, April 4, 1948

Still some cold. Bill’s father and mother here all day. We took them for a little ride. Aunt Ava and Uncle Lewis called in p.m.




Monday, April 5, 1948

A very nice day. We washed, put the machine out in shed.



Tuesday, April 6, 1948

A rainy day. Bill, Betty and I called at Roland Howards, Dutch Pikes, and downtown. Billie got his Red Durham steers from Cark Warren.



Wednesday, April 7, 1948

Betty and I cleaned the shed chamber. A very nice day. Girls, Bill and I call at Jean’s in eve.



Thursday, April 8, 1948

I washed. Cold and cloudy. Sylvia went today to Hebron. I washed. Bill worked all day.



Friday, April 9, 1948

Clear, cold and windy. Awful cold all day.

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