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, June 8, 2015

March 21 - 25, 1955 Jeffrey Wyvern Smith Born



Monday, March 21, 1955

Cloudy, not very cold. I washed. Got clothes in. Billie fair. Robert in to see Mama, she can see with her eyes. She was so pleased and so are we all. Brud and Verna had a son born today, Jeffrey Wyvern Smith born at Stoneham Massachusetts at 10:30 PM. Wyvern and Verna Smith no. 2



Tuesday, March 22, 1955

Another storm snowed. Billie just the same. Fern, Lloyd and Uncle Os up this evening. Fern brought up a birthday cake for Billie’s 24th birthday. We had ice cream also. Bill called out at 9 o’clock, got home at midnight. I ironed today.



Wednesday, March 23, 1955

Nice day. Billie went down to see Dr. Skillin, still has temp. I cooked some. Raymond called. Bill called out at 4:30 this morning, about 6 inches of snow came in storm.





Thursday, March 24, 1955

Very nice day. Made a cake, helped Billie at the barn. Jack Cadman, wife and boy called to see the cow. No word from Portland since Monday. Dennis called in p.m.



Friday, March 25, 1955

Clean up the house, cooked etc. Nice day. Billie over to Raymond’s shop. Bill and I went over to Harrison tonight.


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