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, November 27, 2014

October 5 -11, 1946 Jim Small and his Dixie Trio with Georgia Harmon



Saturday, October 5, 1946

Very hot. Cleaned up the house. Baked some new beans we raised.



Sunday, October 6, 1946

Very hot. Bill went off fishing all day. I cooked, cut up vegs for pickles. Billie worked all day. Very hot.



Monday, October 7, 1946

Did a big wash. Very hot. Made a batch of pickles.



Tuesday, October 8, 1946

Much cooler. I cleaned up the house. Aunt Linnie and I went down to the cemetery. I husked some corn and made some pickles for Papa.



Wednesday, October 9, 1946

Papa called. Betty and I husked corn during the day. Blanche, Billie, Val and I husked at night. Bob and Bill worked on Bob’s truck. Still cold, falling stars tonight.



Thursday, October 10, 1946

Jim Small and his Dixie Trio and Georgia Harmon put on a show at the town hall. It was swell. I enjoyed it all. Fern, Sara, Dorothea, and I went.



Friday, October 11, 1946 

 Billie and I hauled in corn fodder. Bill and Billie got all the stocks of beans in. Nice day.



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