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!

Thursday, April 9, 2015

April 1 - 7, 1954 A TELEVISION!!!



Thursday, April 1, 1954

Churned. Cloudy.



Friday, April 2, 1954

Quite cold and windy. I cooked, was alone most all day. Bill and Billie went to Portland. Billie went to see about G.I. loan. Nothing doing. They bought a Silvertone TV at Sears Roebuck (ordered it).



Saturday, April 3, 1954

Bill and Billie and I went to town. Very cold and windy. Betty’s records came today. In p.m. we went over to Lyda Randall’s with Donnie. She gave me $10.



Sunday, April 4, 1954

Still very cold, 10 above this morning. Ilan came down and cut or sawed down the apple trees. Bill and Billie cleaned up the brush and burned it. Nice sunny day.



Monday, April 5, 1954

I washed. Cleaned up the house, washed sitting room floor. Billie and Dennis hauled wood. Aunt Ava came over and brought over some things and put into deep freeze. I ironed in eve. Billie went to lodge.



Tuesday, April 6, 1954

Did a little cooking, washed dining room and kitchen floors. Kimbo sick. Had a premature, kitten she died today. Billie and Dennis hauled some sawdust. Began to rain late this p.m.



Wednesday, April 7, 1954

Very nice warm day. I cleaned up the house, did some cooking. Billie helped Dennis in the p.m. About three our TV set came from Sears. Fern, Lloyd, Uncle Os, came up in evening, also Kennard. Mama came home from Ferns.




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