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, September 7, 2015

June 17 - 19, 1956



Sunday, June 17, 1956

A nice day, cooler. Betty sang for choir at M. E. Church, I duet with Kay Fleck. Es and I went to church. I made some cupcakes and ironed. Kay up here today. We had a cookout at supper time, had T-bone steaks. Fern, Lloyd and Uncle Os, Esther and Susan and Kay Fleck our guests.





Monday, June 18, 1956

A nice cool day, quite windy. I washed. In p.m. Fern, Es, Susan and I went down to Gorham to get Bill’s strawberry plants 1000 for $16. After supper he, Betty and I set most of them out.



Tuesday, June 19, 1956

Another nice clear cool day. I ironed, done up the house work. After supper Bill, Betty and I finished setting out the strawberry plants. Esther and Susan up to Dolore’s today. Betty up in p.m. They all rode over to Flossie Dyer’s.





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