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, June 28, 2015

July 12 - 17, 1955 Mama's Birthday



Tuesday, July 12, 1955

Nice day still cool. Ironed. They finished up the haying tonight. Dorothea came up tonight. Thena Allen called.



Wednesday, July 13, 1955

Dorothea here for supper. Dorothy Prescott called. Had an awful fight tonight the kids. I clean up the house.



Thursday, July 14, 1955

I did up the housework. Aunt Ava called in evening, also Fern and Lloyd.



Friday, July 15, 1955

Nice day. I churned, washed, cooked. Dorothea came up about noon, made a birthday cake for her grandmother. In evening Aunt Ava, Uncle Lewis, Fern, Lloyd and Uncle Os and Robert here for evening, birthday cake etc. Mama felt better today. She got nice gifts. Ironed in eve. Kids fight too much.



Saturday, July 16, 1955

Rain today. I did up the work. Kennard called. We went to town, also stopped to pay Gordon Sanborn for bailing hay $67.00. Kennard got caught by state cop driving his car tonight while drinking, took him to town in jail to get sobered off.



Sunday, July 17, 1955

Very hot. I didn’t do much. Billie mowed lawns. At supper time we had a steak cookout, Fern and family up. Milan, Norma and Ronald called, brought Blanche back from Connecticut. Bill, Betty, Kennard and I took Delores back to camp.
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