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!

Friday, April 10, 2015

April 8 - 12, 1954


Thursday, April 8, 1954

Cloudy. Billie and I over to Aunt Ava’s in forenoon.



Friday, April 9, 1954

Very nice day quite warm but awful windy. Evelyn, Stanley, Bobby, Mary and Gail called in a.m. Raymond called in p.m. TV coming in good.



Saturday, April 10, 1954

Cold and windy. Bill put windshield in car. Kennard and Dolores called in p.m. Aloha Bradley here all day. Raymond called in evening to watch TV. Bob, Bill and Billie burned Bob’s field over.




Sunday, April 11, 1954

Didn’t get up very early. Didn’t do much. Good shows on TV.



Monday, April 12, 1954

Fair, windy. I washed and ironed. Elmer Fogg bought the cow and calf today. (Lily.) Kennard up in evening. Raymond called to. Saw Bridgton on TV.
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