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!

Monday, May 11, 2015

October 10 - 15, 1954 Off to Massachusets and Lahey Clinic

Little scrap that was in Nanny's 1954 diary.


Sunday, October 10, 1954

Fair and warm. We went to Mass today up to Brud’s. Left about 10 got up there at about 1 o’clock. Bill, Evelyn, and Bobby took us up. Had a good time and nice trip. In p.m. Brud and Verna took us to Andover, Lawrence, and Salem etc. It was lots of fun. They have a very nice home. Nola Raye is so cunning.



Monday, October 11, 1954

Cloudy, quite warm. Verna, Nola Raye and I went up to Stoneham town to do some shopping, mail letters etc. Bill home. Cleared in p.m.



Tuesday, October 12, 1954

Nice day. Brud and Verna took us into Boston and to all of the interesting places, Mystic River Bridge, Logan Airport, down Washington Avenue, by North station, Boston Gardens, Harvard College, WBZ radio station. Had a very nice trip and good time. Very interesting. Awful hot.



Wednesday, October 13, 1954

Nice day. Bill went to the Lahey Clinic with Brud in Boston. Told him he had gout. I called up home tonight.



Thursday, October 14, 1954

Bill went into Boston with Brud to go to the clinic. Got medicine and put onto a special diet. Verna ironed, I washed up her floors for her. Nice day. Threats of Hazel coming.



Friday, October 15, 1954

Cloudy. Threats of the Hurricane Hazel coming. Verna and I went over to Woburn in a.m. shopping. Bill stayed home with Nola Raye. In p.m. we get ready to come home. Left at 6:30 PM got home about 10:30. Had good time. They were so good to us.
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