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, October 30, 2014

March 23 - 29, 1946



Saturday, March 23, 1946

Colder with March wind. Mr. Murray brought grain. School kept today. Billie to movies. Raymond Allen spent eve with us. Cooked and churned today.



Sunday, March 24, 1946

Bought our bay horse, Bruce, of Sam Pitts $150 paid cash. Money we earn from the chicks. Nice day. Took up the sap buckets.

Bruce



Monday, March 25, 1946

Rained a little. 1600 chicks came from Hague at Gorham. We washed. Bill down to Jean’s in evening.



Tuesday March 26, 1946

I have a terrible lame back and shoulders been bothering for some time. I ironed today.



Wednesday, March 27, 1946

Dorothea didn’t go to school. Betty, Dorothea and I cleaned the shed chamber. Very windy.



Thursday, March 28, 1946

Fern up all day and started a very pretty red suit for Betty. A very pretty dress for Dorothea. Snaps came back today.



Friday, March 29, 1946

Very nice day 85 degrees hot. I washed and finished the shed chamber. Betty and I had a good shampoo and bath. I washed Dorothea’s curtains.

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