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, July 9, 2015

September 15 - 19, 1955



Thursday, September 15, 1955

Picked beans (shell), Mama shelled them. Betty rode her horse.



Friday, September 16, 1955

Cooked some. Froze beans. Washed.



Saturday, September 17, 1955

Dorothea and I went to town shopping in forenoon, got Bill at noon. Paid taxes today. Betty had a big spill from her horse. The dog tripped the horse. Ken and Dolores left for the boys’ homes today for a 10 day visit.





Sunday, September 18, 1955

Very hot. Got the work done up, got dinner.



Monday, September 19, 1955

Washed. Nice day, quite hot. Picked some beans. Fern and Lloyd called.

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