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 15, 2015

November 3 - 8, 1954 Joy on the Alton Brit Show



Wednesday, November 3, 1954

Billie home today, put on the storm windows. Rained awful hard all day. Bill, Betty and I down to Fleck’s in the evening.



Thursday, November 4, 1954

Cleaned the grain room today. Cold but fair.



Friday, November 5, 1954

Cloudy all day. Didn’t do very much today. Fern, Uncle Os and Lloyd, Aunt Ava and Uncle Lewis all here in evening to see Joy on the Alton Brit show. She did good. Billie had a new cow come tonight.



Saturday, November 6, 1954

Very nice clear day. Did up the work. Went to town. Kennard came up for supper tonight. Very cold tonight. Betty went to the movies this p.m., the Halloween free movie. Oilman came today. Kennard came down for supper.



Sunday, November 7, 1954

Donnie getting sick with one of his nervous spells.



Monday, November 8, 1954

Washed. Donnie still sick.

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