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!

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

December 25 - 27, 1956 Christmas Day



Tuesday, December 25, 1956 Christmas day.

Fair. Warm. Had our tree in AM. We all had a very nice Christmas, many nice gifts. One thing missing was Dorothea. No one here for dinner all came in afternoon and evening. We had chicken, roast pork, turnip, onions, shell beans, salad, celery, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, gravies, rolls, Graham nut bread, pecan, custard, graham cracker and lemon sponge pies, cream puffs, ice cream and cake, coffee and tea.

Cindy Smith on Christmas Day 1956



Wednesday, December 26, 1956

A very nice day but cold. I washed. Billie worked for Dennis. I wrote to Dorothea in PM. Bill and I went down to Gordon and Sally’s and called at Charlie and Jeans. Betty been enjoying her microscope set.



Thursday, December 27, 1956

Sunny in early forenoon clouded up at noon, some light snow. Joy here today. Kay here tonight. I churned for the last time today until about first of April. I got the clothes in. Billie worked with Dennis and at night he petitioned the tie up off.


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