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 4, 2015

June 22 - 25, 1957



Saturday, June 22, 1957

A very nice day not too hot. Brud and family called. Sold 11 boxes strawberries today. Did up the work and in a.m. Betty and I pick strawberries. Betty down swimming in evening after supper. Bill and Billie moved Betty’s camp down to back in the field. Billie worked over to Jim’s after supper. Barbara Conant Autio called. I made root beer today.



Sunday, June 23, 1957 Hot

A nice day. We picked eight boxes of strawberries. Took them down to Ferns. Billie raked the hay. Gordon came and bailed it. Raymond came over and help them get it in. Had 114 bales. George Bowley and Glenn Chadbourne called. Rosalie Smart and son called. Also Don O’Brien. Betty to church. Got all the hay done at home today. Billie mowed at Lloyd’s for himself today. Sold eight boxes.



Monday, June 24, 1957 HOT

A very hot day. I did a very big wash. Donnie sick in the p.m. In evening Dawn Parks came up and spent the evening. Betty went down and stayed all night with Dawn Parks. Mildred Chadbourne died this morning early. Telephone man called.



Tuesday, June 25, 1957

It rained all day hard. Bill didn’t work. I worked at Thena’s. Betty went down to Augusta with Dawn Parks, first time she ever saw the capital building of Maine. Fern and Lloyd called in evening. Also David, Stevie and Kennie Whitney. Betty got a new bird today. Donnie sick.
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