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 18, 2015

November 20 - 26, 1948



Saturday, November 20, 1948

Worked. Dorothea down to Sarah’s for weekend. Billie and Glenn came home from hunting trip. They called in eve also Fern and Lloyd.



Sunday, November 21, 1948

It rained. Charlie and Jean and Aunt Ava and Kennard called.



Monday, November 22, 1948

Cloudy and rainy. Did another washing. Charlie and Jean called also Aunt Ava and Kennard.



Tuesday, November 23, 1948

Did a little cooking. Rained.



Wednesday, November 24, 1948

Rained all day. Cooked. Bill and I downtown in eve. Called at Aunt Ava’s. Joe Pike called and took Frank to Masons.



Thursday, November 25, 1948

Thanksgiving



Friday, November 26, 1948

Cleaned up from yesterday and washed.


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