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, March 6, 2015

August 28 - September 3, 1948



Saturday, August 28, 1948



Awful hot. Mama up to Aunt Ava’s. Bill and I to town. Ruby went home. Kids got school things. We canned. Kennie broke his foot.




Sunday, August 29, 1948



Bill and Billie led Gertie and baby up to Dick Randall’s shorthorn bull. Cooled off today.



Monday, August 30, 1948



We canned the shell beans and washed. Cooler.




Tuesday, August 31, 1948



Cooler. Betty Smith up here and canned beans and corn.

From 1948 - Cousins Betty, 5, Norma, 4 and Jackie 6.




Wednesday, September 1, 1948




Very cold and windy. Betty finished her canning. Charlie and Grandpa called. Dot down to Fern’s and making dress.




Thursday, September 2, 1948




I washed. Not quite so cool. Dot down to Fern’s again, had some more dresses made. I mowed (?). Pulled R. K. beans.


Friday, September 3, 1948



Joy here. Mama canned carrots. I cleaned up the house. We churned 5 pounds of butter.
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