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, November 28, 2015

May 31 - June 3, 1957



Friday, May 31, 1957

A nice day. I worked for Lila today, helped her clean her cottage. We got a very nice picture of Dorothea today. Also a letter. This evening we went down to Gorham and got some strawberry plants at Neil Haden’s.



Saturday, June 1, 1957

A very nice day hot. I cooked, cleaned up the kitchen and did some other cleaning up. Betty got her permanent. Today Kay came home with her. In p.m. Kay went home and Betty went swimming. Billie bought some new clothes tonight. Gone away with Dennis this evening.



Sunday, June 2, 1957

Rained most all day. Bill got the plants all set out today. I helped him. Betty washed dinner dishes. Milan came last night in the night, from Connecticut for a week. Billie harrowed the ground and Bill sowed the seeds. Betty’s hair looks very nice when she went to church. My jaw sore all day.

Betty - June 1957



Monday, June 3, 1957

A nice day. Dolores and I cleaned Dearborn’s cottage. A very nice cottage. Dot, Lorraine, Wanda Jean and Karen called up here to the house. Donnie real good now. Bill and I down and called on Judy and her family this evening. Fern, Lloyd and Kennard called in evening.
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