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, April 13, 2015

April 22 - 27, 1954



Thursday, April 22, 1954

Very hot. Cooked a little. Cleaned some upstairs.



Friday, April 23, 1954

(Blank)



Saturday, April 24, 1954

Did a big wash today, upstairs curtains etc. Lloyd up, they began hauling the manure. Nice day.



Sunday, April 25, 1954

Finished hauling out manure. I did the ironing. Cloudy and cold.



Monday, April 26, 1954

I washed again, upstairs and picked up. Billie began to work up to Chet’s.



Tuesday, April 27, 1954

I began cleaning, got two bedrooms on South end upstairs done. Cold and cloudy.

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