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, July 5, 2015

August 25 - 29, 1955



Thursday, August 25, 1955

Betty cleaned out the playpen. I mowed lawns. Donnie not very good in morning, but lot better in p.m.



Friday, August 26, 1955

Good day, quite cool in morning but got real hot p.m. Dorothea came home with a lot of her things from camp. I washed. Betty went down to Jill’s for the day. Jill’s birthday. Dorothea had to work all day. Donnie better.



Saturday, August 27, 1955

Cloudy in a.m. Cleared off in p.m., clear and cool. Went to town in late a.m. Betty got her new shoes. Also I got her some undies. Kennard went with us. Dorothea came home for good today. She, Betty and five other girls gone to Norway. I ironed in p.m. Donnie went to town with us. Billie and I went over to Jim C. and town in eve.



Sunday, August 28, 1955

Dorothea to church. Good day.



Monday, August 29, 1955

I washed. Had a lot of D’s clothes. She had car today.

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