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!

Thursday, May 7, 2015

September 12 - 18, 1954



Sunday, September 12, 1954

Very nice day not a cloud in the sky. Did up the regular work. Jim and Mildred called. Wrote to Es and Dorothea.



Monday, September 13, 1954

Fair today. I washed.



Tuesday, September 14, 1954

I ironed. Cloudy.



Wednesday, September 15, 1954

Cleaned up the house. Dot and Lorraine up here today. Told us about Joan’s baby. I went over to Aunt Linnie’s in evening.



Thursday, September 16, 1954

Cloudy. Rained in p.m. Blanche called. Raymond called. Didn’t do much. Went downtown. My check came today.



Friday, September 17, 1954

Did up the work. We canned some tomatoes.



Saturday, September 18, 1954

I did regular work, went downtown today.
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