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, August 22, 2015

April 4 -8, 1956



Wednesday, April 4, 1956

A cloudy and rainy day. I cooked. Snow settled today. The bathroom outfit came tonight.



Thursday, April 5, 1956

A very nice day, snow settled a lot. Fern and Lloyd up in p.m. We got the bathroom fixtures set in. Robert over in eve also Hayd, Helen and Kay came in eve. Kennie here in p.m. Records of Dorothea’s came.



Friday, April 6, 1956

A very nice day. Saw first robin today for the season. To town today. Begun to tear out partition today for new bathroom. Charlie and Jean called today. Down town in a.m.



Saturday, April 7, 1956

A nice day. Robert came over. Dorothea’s pictures came today, very nice. Bill got quite a lot done in the new bathroom today. Ina Wildberger died today at a Lewiston hospital. She was a distant cousin of Mama’s. They were quite close.



Sunday, April 8, 1956

Cloudy, cold and snow squalls. Bill worked in the new toilet. Kennie, Dot, Fern, Lloyd called. I wrote my letters.

Bathroom/Toilets - all the same

Cindy Smith's birthday

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