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!

Sunday, December 21, 2014

March 22 - 28, 1947



Saturday, March 22, 1947

Warmer. Made 1 quart syrup. Billie sold his calf to L. Boynton for (?) $10. Hayd came up and paid Bill. Bob came up and cut up pig. Billie 16 years old. Snow went a lot in the dooryard.



Sunday, March 23, 1947



Bill shingled on the barn. A very cold cloudy day. Fern and Lloyd called in eve.



Monday, March 24, 1947

We washed. It rained hard. Bill shingled a little on the barn. Our old cow got awful hurt by Bruce. He got loose. Hayd and Helen called in eve.



Tuesday, March 25, 1947

Bill worked over its Jim’s. Cold. Goden and Sally called in eve.



Wednesday, March 26, 1947

Bill couldn’t go back to Jim’s, lame. A very cold day.



Thursday, March 27, 1947

Terribly cold. Billie home sick. Dorothea was brought home at noon sick. Lawrence Sargent brought her home.



Friday, March 28, 1947

Warmer. We washed. Dorothea didn’t go to school. Sylvia and Jack called. Bill still lame.


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