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!

Sunday, May 10, 2015

October 3 - 9, 1954



Sunday, October 3, 1954

Bill better. We had good steaks for supper.



Monday, October 4, 1954

Bill lame. In bed. I washed today.



Tuesday, October 5, 1954

I ironed.



Wednesday, October 6, 1954

Cleaned up the house.



Thursday, October 7, 1954

Washed. Did regular work. We churned to.



Friday, October 8, 1954

Did regular work. Dolores called me and wanted me to go up to Mass with Bill. I ironed today.



Saturday, October 9, 1954

Went to town today. Got packed and ready to go up to Mass. Went to Portland in a.m. to have Betty’s eyes tested. Evelyn took us down.
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)