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!

Thursday, September 17, 2015

July 28 - 31, 1956



Saturday, July 28, 1956

A very nice day. Hot. Sarah and Uncle Os called. Sara cut Betty’s hair. I did up the regular Saturday work. Cooked some too. Brud’s folks came today for a week.



Sunday, July 29, 1956 Dorothea’s 19th birthday

A very nice day. Bill worked on the strawberry bed. I wrote letters in p.m. In late p.m. Bill, Mama, Donnie and I went for a ride. Billie worked at Chet’s haying. Billie led the new Guernsey cow (Twitchell cow) up to Hayd’s.

Billie and Lil Edson at Edson's Farm




Monday, July 30, 1956

A very nice day. Bill went to Mass to the Lahey Clinic today. I washed today. Verna called in p.m.



Tuesday, July 31, 1956

A very nice day. Peter and Roger Lowell (twins) down here for the day. I ironed. In p.m. Aunt Ava and Etta Keen called in p.m. Raymond called in evening. Betty down to the choir rehearsal now. Betty helped to do the work this morning. Bill helped Lloyd get in some hay tonight. Bill didn’t get home till 12 at night last night.

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