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, October 26, 2015

January 15 - 18, 1957



Tuesday, January 15, 1957 Cold Warmer 20 Below

Still cold. I got clothes in. I cooked today. 20 below this morning.



Wednesday, January 16, 1957 Cold
Snowed all day about 9 inches came. Windy. Mama got up today. Billie downtown. Cold in a.m., temps rose to about 10 above in p.m. and 15 above in eve. I ironed.



Thursday, January 17, 1957

Partly cloudy in a.m., cleared in p.m. Quite warm during early p.m. Got cold in evening again. Betty down to choir rehearsal and to Kays tonight. Bill and Billie shoveled out driveway today. Today got a $25 check from Lida today.



Friday, January 18, 1957

20° below this morning. Wrote to Dorothea. Went to town and done some shopping, cooked in p.m. Kennard called in p.m. Jet planes landed today at March Air Force Base California from a around the world nonstop flight.

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