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!

Saturday, January 31, 2015

January 3 - 9, 1948



Saturday, January 3, 1948

Delores called  in pm.  Smart girls here today. Did regular work. Raymond went to town with us tonight.



Sunday, January 4, 1948

Billie and Glenn C. (Chadbourne) went ice fishing. Bill didn’t do much. Fern and Lloyd called in eve. I made some fudge in p.m. Hayd came up to see Bill.



Monday, January 5, 1948

We washed. Cloudy but warm. Jean got a note from her father. They are to set sail 14 - 19 of this month. Bill and I down to Jean’s in eve. School began.



Tuesday, January 6, 1948

It was cloudy. Got the clothes in.



Wednesday, January 7, 1948

I ironed this morning. Billie still over to M. (Maple) Lane.



Thursday, January 8, 1948

We washed. Fair today. Nice and warm.



Friday, January 9, 1948

Big storm. Bill didn’t work. He and Bob hauled shavings for hens. Bill up to Hayds in pm to eve.
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