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!

Saturday, April 18, 2015

May 23 - 28, 1954



Sunday, May 23, 1954

Did regular work.



Monday, May 24, 1954

Washed.



Tuesday, May 25, 1954

I painted hall stairs and floor.



Wednesday, May 26, 1954

I finished painting living room.



Thursday, May 27, 1954

Cold and windy. Evelyn called. I washed all windows on the outside. Worked in living room. Barbara and Nancy Conant up and brought up the Corona.



Friday, May 28, 1954

Kind of cloudy, but it warmed up a lot. They began to spray with planes. Delores bot a TV today. I settled the living room after painting the floor. Fern, Lloyd and Uncle Os up in evening. Raymond called.

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