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 17, 2015

October 27 - November 1, 1955



Thursday, October 27, 1955

Cold. I did up the housework, cooked, cut down the bamboo etc.



Friday, October 28, 1955

Very nice warm day. Went for a ride up to Cold River and around over Fryeburg way with Aunt Ava and Uncle Lewis. Billie got two more head of cattle today, a Guernsey heifer and Holstein.



Saturday, October 29, 1955

Very nice warm day. I cleaned up the house, cooked, went to town. Mrs. Lowell called. Got furnace oil today. Esther came home from the hospital today.



Sunday, October 30, 1955

Cloudy and cold. We moved the deep freeze down cellar. Billie worked in tie up. Bill cleaned the kitchen stove burners. Jill up today.



Monday, October 31, 1955

Washed. Billie home today and worked on the tie up. It rained. Betty had a Halloween party here tonight. We got the pork back tonight, cut and wrapped for deep freeze.



Tuesday, November 1, 1955

Churned. Billie home again today because of the rain.
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