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!

Monday, March 2, 2015

July 31 - August 6, 1948



Saturday, July 31, 1948

Nice day. Did a lot of work. Bill, Dorothea and I to town in eve.



Sunday, August 1, 1948

Nice day. Bill’s father and mother up. Bill did some work out back.



Monday, August 2, 1948

Nice day. Washed.



Tuesday, August 3, 1948

I ironed, did regular work.



Wednesday, August 4, 1948

Barbara Conant up here today. She took three kittens home.

Dorothea, Barbara Conant and Betty around 1948




Thursday, August 5, 1948

I washed. Nice day.


Friday, August 6, 1948

Rained. Bill didn’t go to work. He, Mama and I went to Portland and Norway also. Betty, Joy here with Dorothea.
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