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!

Monday, February 2, 2015

January 17 - 24, 1948




Saturday, January 17, 1948

Snowed. Bill worked. School kept ‘til one o’clock.



Sunday, January 18, 1948

Cold and windy. Bill shoveled snow. Billie worked most of the day.



Monday, January 19, 1948

We washed. Rosalie came down. Cold. Cleaned house.



Tuesday, January 20, 1948

I cleaned the upstairs. Mama done the ironing. Ilan took Dorothea and I with Rosalie and Nancy down to Scout time. Bill wouldn’t take us. Nice day.



Wednesday, January 21, 1948

I cleaned Mama’s room and Ed’s room. Started on the living room. Snowed. Bill didn’t work. Jean got word from New York. Lloyd, Fern and Raymond called in eve.



Thursday, January 22, 1948

Cold. Jean got word boat wouldn’t arrive till Saturday morning.



Friday, January 23, 1948

Jean left tonight to meet her folks at New York. Cold and cloudy.

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