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, June 4, 2015

March 1- 6, 1955



Tuesday, March 1, 1955

Cloudy and stormy. Snowed tonight. I got most of clothes in.



Wednesday, March 2, 1955

Ironed. Cleared off. Over to Aunt Linnie’s in p.m. Bill had to go back to work tonight.



Thursday, March 3, 1955

Churned. Good day. Did regular work. Bill put pulley on to the separator.



Friday, March 4, 1955

Cooked, did up regular work. Bill worked a little over time. Billie worked in p.m. for Lawrence. Nice day, kind of cold.



Saturday, March 5, 1955

Linda Weeman and Ann Weeman up here today. Nice day. Kennard called in p.m. Bill had to work all day. Cooked some.



Sunday, March 6, 1955

Cloudy and snowed some. Bill called to work at 6 this morning. Kay Fleck up here with Betty today.


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