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, April 25, 2015

July 3 - 7, 1954



Saturday, July 3, 1954

Went to town in p.m. Cleaned up the house.



Sunday, July 4, 1954 Independence Day

They finished up the hay fork. Billie put the pigs out.


Summer  1954



Monday, July 5, 1954

I washed. We went to the parade in p.m. A bad shower in p.m.



Tuesday, July 6, 1954

I worked all day and ironed some. Bill and I down to Conant’s to take some Dorothea’s clothes.



Wednesday, July 7, 1954

I cooked, iron and wash today. Kail came up. Bill and Billie down to Herbert’s tonight. Nice day.


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