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, August 31, 2015

May 15 - 19, 1956



Tuesday, May 15, 1956

Fair. I helped Fern clean her pantry. Edith McAllister and family up here in evening, also Goden and family. I did some mining. Billie brought home pig tonight.



Wednesday, May 16, 1956

Helped Fern clean her back kitchen. She finished her cleaning today. Bill home because it rained. He did a good job covering the kitchen shelves.



Thursday, May 17, 1956

Cleaning kitchen today. It is cold and cloudy. Billie got home early tonight. Robert went into hospital today.



Friday, May 18, 1956

A very cold day. We finished cleaning the kitchen. I went to town and got curtains for living room. Also Venetian blind for bathroom. Betty to movies tonight with Jill. Robert operated on today for a gland trouble etc.



Saturday, May 19, 1956

I cooked, churned, cleaned up the house, to town and in evening we painted floors. A fair day but cold. Betty didn’t do anything special. She did wash supper dishes.

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