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 27, 2015

July 10 - 16, 1948



Saturday, July 10, 1948

Nice hot day. All went down to see the moose and Dot’s new house. Bill, grandpa, Grammy two kids and Mama and I.



Sunday, July 11, 1948

Picked berries. Bill’s father and mother went back down to Jean’s tonight.



Monday, July 12, 1948

Bill back to work. We washed. I picked some berries for George Stevens. Dorothea earned $1.00 helping me.



Tuesday, July 13, 1948

Dorothea and I picked a few berries for store. Mr. Ridley called here today. Got a shower. Hot.



Wednesday, July 14, 1948

I cleaned out tops of the barn to get it ready to put the hay into.



Thursday, July 15, 1948

I washed. Nice day.



Friday, July 16, 1948

Cleaned up the house and ironed. Mowed some grass. Phil came down with tractor to mow.


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