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 14, 2015

November 23 -26, 1956



Friday, November 23, 1956

Clear but an awful cold, some clouds. Bill hunted all day. I churned, went to town, got Richard Hudnut wave and Blanche gave Betty a hair permanent. Very good. Betty looks like a new person. I put the house into shape again. Kay up here tonight. Betty down to Kay’s tonight. Billie over to get a haircut.



Saturday, November 24, 1956

A nice day, but awful cold. I did some cooking. Cleaned up the house, to town before supper. Bill hunted all day. Betty gone all day came home in eve with Bill.



Sunday, November 25, 1956

Fair in a.m. Betty to church. Kay here in p.m. Bill and Lloyd finished up at camp. I wrote to Dorothea and Esther. In late p.m. Aunt Ava and Uncle Lewis called. Billie traded a heifer with Elmer Fogg today for a Durham beef heifer. Phone red. (?)



Monday, November 26, 1956

Snow today about 5 to 7 inches. I washed. Bill over to Norway. In PM he and I to town. We bought the Atlantic end heater at Lowell $65 bot an electric Kelvinator range of Potter and Thurlow. I cooked. Bill got paid $6.00 from camp work.



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