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!

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

March 20 - 26, 1948 Custer Allen Comes to Stay



Saturday, March 20, 1948

A very hot day. Snow went a lot. Bill and I put the mud guard on car. 70°



Sunday, March 21, 1948

Cloudy and showery. Snow going fast. Billie’s father and Gordon called. Bill, kids and I went down to Jean’s.



Monday, March 22, 1948

Bill, Jean, Bill’s mother and father went to Portland. A very hot day. Billie all through it Maple Lane. Snow most all gone. Bill 17 years today.



Tuesday, March 23, 1948

Bill left at 4 AM this morning with Jim to go to Maryland for plants. Betty and I went to the minstrel that the Girl Scouts put on. Dorothea was in it. Fern went with us.



Wednesday, March 24, 1948

Very nice hot day. Sat on the piazza. Did a big wash. Got them dry. Winnered beans. It got cold tonight, awful wind.



Thursday, March 25, 1948

Awful windy. Did a big ironing. Bill came home today, very tired. Custer Allen came here tonight.

Melvin 'Custer' Allen



Friday, March 26, 1948

We didn’t do much. I cooked a little. Bill began to rake up out front.

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