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, March 4, 2015

August 14 - 20, 1948 "Decided to get cow and hens"



Saturday, August 14, 1948

Nice day with showers. Bill, kids and I went to carnival in eve. Mama up to Aunt Ava’s.



Sunday, August 15, 1948

Nice day. Bill’s father and mother up. We went over to Poland Spring house.



Monday, August 16, 1948

Washed, ironed. Aunt Ava here and washed. Very good day.



Tuesday, August 17, 1948

Canned peas. Fair day.


Wednesday, August 18, 1948

Didn’t do much today.



Thursday, August 19, 1948

Washed. Decided to get cow and hens.



Friday, August 20, 1948

Aunt Ava and Uncle Lewis here. We canned string beans. Bill and I pulled kidney beans. Hot.
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