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!

Friday, July 31, 2015

December 28 - 31, 1955 End of 1955



Wednesday, December 28, 1955

Nice day, quite cold. Billie and Raymond hauled slabs for Raymond shop, from Les Thomas’ mill. Betty and Holly over skating. I cleaned up the house, talked with Fern.



Thursday, December 29, 1955

Fair today. Did very little work. Betty went for a ride on Blondie up over Ridge. Billie and Raymond downtown in p.m. Cloudy in late p.m. and snow began to fall in evening. Raymond called in eve.



Friday, December 30, 1955

Up at four this morning. Bill called out. It has cleared off, about 2 inches of snow. Bill had a birthday cake tonight.



Saturday, December 31, 1955

Did up the work. Dorothea and I went to town shopping. Sat up till midnight to see new year celebrations in Times Square, New York. Jill up here all night. Dorothea out with Kennie Richardson from Norway.

END OF 1955


This is a photo of an actual note Nanny wrote in the back of her 1955 Diary in 1989.




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