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, May 1, 2015

August 9 - 13, 1954 Who is (?) Awful Ken Mayer



Monday, August 9, 1954

Washed, kind of cloudy. Got the clothes in.



Tuesday, August 10, 1954

It rained hard all day. I had my permanent in forenoon. In p.m. went to Sarah Taylor’s and Norman Littlefield’s wedding at Ferns. A very pretty wedding.



Wednesday, August 11, 1954

I ironed. Pick some blueberries and peas today.



Thursday, August 12, 1954

Fair. Awful Ken Mayer’s birthday today. Been to work for WBZ just three years today. I washed. Made a pie, went to town with Bill today and over to Harrison.





Friday, August 13, 1954

Very good day. Mowed lawns, ironed. Betty and Bill fixed the pen for geese. Cleaned up the barn etc. Over to Aunt Linnie’s in evening. Dorothea, Barbara and Philip called. Dot and Lorraine brought up some blueberries then in evening Kennie and Dot brought up some.

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