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 15, 2015

March 6 - 9, 1956



Tuesday, March 6, 1956

Nice day. I cooked and ironed. They worked in woods all day. Raymond out to mailbox today. Sent stamps to Dorothea today. Frances came up to Aunt Linnie’s tonight.



Wednesday, March 7, 1956

A fair day. I cooked and cleaned up the house. Over to Raymond’s in the evening. Betty got other polio shot at school. Bill and Kennard made a tire for snow tread for Kennard.



Thursday, March 8, 1956

A very bad day. Snow, sleet, rain, and no school. Awful traveling. Bill sick, Mama not too good.



Friday, March 9, 1956

A very windy day, snow blowing some. Bill and I went to town. Paid Dorothea’s Christmas club up to date 15 weeks. They came with horses and began hauling out the logs.

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