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!

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

June 15 - 21, 1954



Tuesday, June 15, 1954

The chickens came tonight, from Check – R- Board grain company at Portland.



Wednesday, June 16, 1954

Cleared off nice today. Got the clothes in and ironed. Billie and Chet took the bull over to pasture tonight. Esther left Brud and Verna’s for home tonight. Bill still lame. Bill harrowed the garden over. Got the other little bull calf from Chet’s tonight.



Thursday, June 17, 1954

Nice day, kind of cool. Betty and I went down to Ferns. Fern fixed some dresses for Betty. Lost a chicken last night. Bill and Dorothea harrowed the garden.



Friday, June 18, 1954

Very nice hot day. Kids and I mowed lawns. I washed and waxed kitchen floor. Billie got a mattress this morning. Barbara telephone from Boston, on her way home from Wisconsin this morning.



Saturday, June 19, 1954

Hot. Went to town. Planted the garden. Bill quite lame.



Sunday, June 20, 1954

Worked all day as usual.



Monday, June 21, 1954

Nice day, hot. We washed. Betty went down Kail’s.

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