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!

Friday, December 18, 2015

August 16 - 18, 1957



Friday, August 16, 1957 Bought my DESK

A nice day on the cool. I didn’t do much. Kay and Helen called. Kay stayed up for the day. Holly called. To town before supper. I got check from Mrs. Ayers $200 paid up to September 6. Billie took me to Norway. I got my desk and chair. Bobbie, Holly, Kay and Betty all went and Lassie too. Donnie sick again tonight. Bought desk at New England Furniture at Norway Maine. Betty got her phonograph.



Saturday, August 17, 1957

Cold and windy. Kay here today, she went home in p.m. They didn’t deliver my desk today, the darn critters. Raymond called in evening and Kennie, Stevie and Holly. Donnie not very bad today.



Sunday, August 18, 1957

Billie worked today. We had chicken dinner. Bill watched ballgame. I wrote letters. Mama went down to call on Mrs. Vance with Fern and Lloyd. Bill and Raymond went down and bought some steel roofing of Leon Bennett at South Bridgton and hauled it home.


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