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, August 6, 2015

January 26 - 30, 1956




Thursday, January 26, 1956

Clouded up. I cleaned up the house and used my new air-way machine. It works nice. Billie worked.



Friday, January 27, 1956

No school, teacher’s convention. Deming family leave Florida for home. Kay Fleck here for day. Cloudy.



Saturday, January 28, 1956

Went to town and shopped for groceries etc.



Sunday, January 29, 1956

Very nice day. Dorothea to movies in p.m.



Monday, January 30, 1956

Cloudy and snowed today. I washed. Billie didn’t work. Bill worked tonight until 10:30.



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