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, May 2, 2015

August 14 -20, 1954



Saturday, August 14, 1954

Picked over and froze five boxes of blueberries Dot and Kennie brought up. Fern, Lloyd and Kennard up in evening.



Sunday, August 15, 1954

Froze some Swiss chard and did the work. They put in two loads of hay.



Monday, August 16, 1954

Fair most of day, quite warm, cloudy with showers in late p.m. I washed. Froze some shell beans and peas. Sent a M. O. of $16 to Sears today.



Tuesday, August 17, 1954

Nice clear day, Windy. Have ironed, went up to call on Amy and Pat to see the baby Faye Ann.



Wednesday, August 18, 1954

Nice day. Washed, cooked etc. Over to Aunt Linnie’s in evening.



Thursday, August 19, 1954

Been cloudy. I have ironed, picked peas, been busy all day. Dorothea came home tonight.



Friday, August 20, 1954

Dorothea here all day. She cleaned up the house, I washed, ironed, picked peas and helped cook. Billie and Paul worked on fence. Raymond, Paul Hodsdon.


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