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!

Saturday, July 11, 2015

September 26 - 30, 1955






Monday, September 26, 1955

I did a big wash. A very good day. Thought of Dorothea all day.



Tuesday, September 27, 1955

I cleaned up the downstairs, changed the furniture in living room. I did the big ironing.



Wednesday, September 28, 1955

I cleaned up the upstairs, washed all the floors. A very nice day.



Thursday, September 29, 1955

Very nice day. I did up the regular work and churned. After supper Betty, Blondie and I went down in the woods. Very pretty. When we came back, called at Aunt Linnie’s.



Friday, September 30, 1955

Cloudy and rained in p.m. I cooked. Kay Fleck up here tonight. We got our first letter from Dorothea. Dolores took her test and passed and got her license.



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