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 11, 2014

September 9 - 15, 1944



Saturday, September 9, 1944

Dorothea, Dolores, and I went to Portland with Bill. Got school clothes etc. Nice day. Kennard drove us home.



Sunday, September 10, 1944

Kennie’s folks called, Fern &Lloyd, Bob’s folks, and Kennard and Dolores. Billy picked 39 bushels of yellow corn. Mama went down to Bob’s. Judy and Daisy bred. Slept upstairs.



Monday, September 11, 1944

School begun today. Nice day. I did big wash.



Tuesday, September 12, 1944

Washed again, cooked, ironed, and did regular work also churned.



Wednesday, September 13, 1944

It rained today. Went up to Dolore’s a few minutes in p.m. Hurricane started in Florida today.



Thursday, September 14, 1944

Still raining. Hurricane coming up the coast. Finished husking corn.



Friday, September 15, 1944

Pansy had her calf today. Hurricane passed out to sea. Not much damage from big winds. Sawdust came tonight.
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