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 6, 2015

September 7 - 11, 1954 Hurricane Edna



Tuesday, September 7, 1954

Bad showers all forenoon. Got word from Mrs. Lida Randall today that Donnie’s mother in the hospital seriously ill. She got shot through her eyes.



Wednesday, September 8, 1954

Cloudy. School began today. Quite a relief.



Thursday, September 9, 1954

Got letter from Dorothea. Didn’t do much today except to cook a little.



Friday, September 10, 1954

Cloudy all day. Churned. Been giving hurricane warning is all day for 5 one of season called Edna. Bill came home quite lame. Got ready tonight for the hurricane.




Saturday, September 11, 1954 Edna Hurricane

A very rough day. High winds, hurricane force and heavy rains. Floods in some places. We had just heavy rain and awful wind. I cooked some, washed kitchen floor. No radio programs just warning weather programs etc. had radio on all day. Billie late getting home.

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