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 16, 2015

November 6 - 12, 1948



Saturday, November 6, 1948

Bill home today, he and Val finished cementing down cellar. Kennie and Rayburn here for supper. Cloudy all day. Quite mild. I finished cleaning.



Sunday, November 7, 1948

Rained in a.m. hard. Cleared about noon. Delores called also Aunt Ava and Uncle Lewis. Kennie brought up piece deer meat. Betty and D to Sunday school and church GS Sunday.



Monday, November 8, 1948

Washed today. Blanche here. Bill stayed home and finished the cellar. I ironed at night.



Tuesday, November 9, 1948

Bill back to work. I cleaned and puttered around. Got some new curtains (shades) for my room.



Wednesday, November 10, 1948

Rained awful hard in p.m. and eve. Awful hard in eve. Bill and I up to Kennard’s in eve. Billie and Glenn leaving tomorrow for a hunting trip to Sweden.



Thursday, November 11, 1948

Very nice day. Dorothea had Beverly Cushman here today. I did a lot of cleaning in shed and barn today. No school. Fern and Lloyd up in eve.



Friday, November 12, 1948

Bill home, he is lame knee. Hauled some wood. We washed. Mama canned apples. Frank Richardson came here to board.

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