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, January 20, 2015

October 18 - 24, 1947 Forest Fires Burn Brownfield



Saturday, October 18, 1947

Dorothea on hike with the Scouts. I worked in sitting room.



Sunday, October 19, 1947

Nice and hot. A small shower in the morning. I finish the sitting room. Ina (or Ira?), Norma, and friends called.



Monday, October 20, 1947

Nice and fair, not quite so hot. Washed today. Bill stayed home and drilled hole through wall for the waterpipe.



Tuesday, October 21, 1947

Fires at Kennebunk, very bad. Cold and windy. Bill piped water into house from new well. Maurice Hamblen died tonight.



Wednesday, October 22, 1947

Forest fires bad. Blanche, Mama, Ed, Betty and I over to Fryeburg. Terrible smoke. Bad fires at Fryeburg.



Thursday, October 23, 1947

Brownfield burned flat today. Awful wind. Bill and Kennard gone to Hiram to help move out furniture. Kennie took us up on the ridge.



Friday, October 24, 1947

Fires still raging. Awful bad wind went down this morning.

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