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!

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

January 13 (again!) - 18, 1955



(Nanny was using a 1954 diary in 1955 and the date/day of the week change screwed her all up for the first couple of weeks - until she got into a rhythm with the new book - thus we have a few journal entry errors. I'm not really sure what happened on what day!) 


Friday, January 13, 1955 


Very nice day. Cliff, Es, Susan and I called at Dorothy Prescotts. Susan went down to school at noon and visited with Betty. Es and Cliff up to Aunt Ava’s for afternoon and supper. Billie worked.




Friday, January 14

Es, Cliff and Susan went to Brunswick for the day. Billie didn’t work. I washed and cooked.



Saturday, January 15, 1955

Es, Cliff, Susan and I to town in a.m. In p.m. Es and family went down to Ferns. Bill went fishing. Aloha up here all day.



Sunday, January 16, 1955

Nice day, Mama sick. Bill helped Bob to tow his car. Billie and Dennis hauled bedding. I wrote letters etc.



Monday, January 17, 1955

I washed. Kind of cloudy. Billie didn’t work. Cliff and I went downtown in p.m.



Tuesday, January 18, 1955

I ironed. Cleaned up the house.
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