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, September 12, 2015

July 5 - 8, 1956



Thursday, July 5, 1956

Cloudy. Kind of warm. I washed. Got a letter from Dorothea today telling us about her engagement to Frank Brandon of Camden Tennessee. In evening Fern, Lloyd and McCammon called to say goodbye.



Friday, July 6, 1956

Rained hard all day. Got Donnie’s haircut. Bill, Bet, Donnie and I over to Lida’s in p.m. It evening we went over to the doctors for Donnie. McCammon’s went home today.



Saturday, July 7, 1956

I did a lot of work. Churned today for first time for about three or four weeks. Bill brought home 20 boxes of strawberries, we froze them. After supper we went to town. Fern and Lloyd up in evening. Cloudy and cold. Cleared late afternoon. Es, Susan and  McCammon’s got home today. A jet plane crashed on Pleasant Mountain. Barbara called today.



Sunday, July 8, 1956

Cloudy in early forenoon. Cleared about noon til three then cloudy and cold. I got dinner, did up the work and get caught up on newspaper reading. Kennie called. Bobbie called in evening. Billie mowed up to Chet's. Bill worked in strawberry bed. Betty went swimming with Jill. Sang at church this forenoon.
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