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!

Monday, August 24, 2015

April 13 - 17, 1956



Friday, April 13, 1956

Finish painting and cleaned, varnished Mama’s room and rug, painted kitchen ceiling. Got paper for kitchen. A cold windy day, began to snow tonight. I cleaned up the living room and dining room. Lloyd called also Goden Oakley.



Saturday, April 14, 1956

Finished papering and painting the kitchen today. It looks very nice. Fern and Lloyd called in p.m. Raymond called also. Fair today.



Sunday, April 15, 1956

Kennie and Dot here today and for dinner. Kennie and Bill got some of the plumbing fixtures in for the shower, seat etc. I washed kitchen windows and ironed the curtains. Lloyd called, Robert, and Raymond. Mama moved back into her rooms today. It looks very nice. Cloudy and began to rain at about dark.



Monday, April 16, 1956

A cloudy dreary rainy day. I washed and took care of some mail, papers etc. Betty home for a week’s vacation.



Tuesday, April 17, 1956

A very nice day, little on the cold side. Snow went a lot even so. Ironed, cooked, did some work up in Betty’s room. Dolores called and Aunt Ava. Betty down to Aloha’s for the day, to movies in evening. Bill began working over to Jim Chadbourne’s after eight weeks to the day he got through for the town.

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