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!

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

November 9 -15,1946 A Secret Wedding is Revealed!



Saturday, November 9, 1946

Cloudy. Milan and Bill cut some timber 5000 (?) feet tonight. Milan and I went to town in p.m. Betty up here for supper, dear steaks, beans. Billie up to Chet’s working.



Sunday, November 10, 1946

Cloudy. Billie up to Chet’s working. Bill drawed out rest of windows and put on storm windows. Mama and I washed them. Kennie and Raymond went hunting.



Monday, November 11, 1946

Rained very hard. No school. Lloyd and Bill hunted. We washed.



Tuesday, November 12, 1946

Cleared off a little. Bill and Milan worked in forenoon down in the woods. Dorothea and I went to PTA with Fern and the Lucks.



Wednesday, November 13, 1946

We started to clean the kitchen. Milan and Bill worked in the woods. Very nice day. Dorothea went to Brownies meeting for first time.



Thursday, November 14, 1946

Milan and Betty left tonight for Florida. They were here for dinner to tell us they were married last Monday night. She is a very good girl. I finished cleaning kitchen. Bill hauled shavings for shed.



Friday, November 15, 1946

I did a big wash and cleaned the shed. Bill down to Jean’s in eve.

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