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, December 14, 2015

August 4 - 7, 1957



Sunday, August 4, 1957

A cloudy day but quite warm. Billie and Bill finished up the fencing. Put cows in today for good. Billie worked at Chet’s haying. Bill and I went down in the woods. Betty and Steve finished pulling the weeds. Bobbie mowed the other ones. I wrote to Es and Dorothea. Hot today. Bill and I called on Hayd today.



Monday, August 5, 1957

A very nice day. I washed, clothes dried good. Got the clothes in and in the evening I ironed.



Tuesday, August 6, 1957 Cool

 I churned, cooked. Betty and I took a walk down in the woods. What a walk we had and the dog. Donnie
 still better.





Wednesday, August 7, 1957

Cool. I cleaned up the house. Went down to Ferns, picked some blackberries. Visited with Fern a while. An accident over on the ski tow today. Betty mowed lawns. Donnie better. Billie out tonight. Betty and Holly up to Arthurlene’s tonight. Letter from Dorothea.
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