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!

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

June 8 - 11, 1957



Saturday, June 8, 1957

A nice day, got cool in evening. I cleaned up the house, cooked. It evening Aunt Ava and Uncle Lewis called. Bill and I up to Parks and called.



Sunday, June 9, 1957

A nice day. Bill worked in strawberry bed. Billie mowed lawns. Betty to church.



Monday, June 10, 1957

A very nice day. I washed, cleaned up the house. Betty down swimming with Stevie. In evening went over to Twitchell’s with Billie to take Mrs. Parks over to see a cow. Fern and Uncle Os called.



Tuesday, June 11, 1957

A very nice hot day. I worked down to Thena’s cleaning house. Mama and Donnie over to Aunt Ava’s for the day. Betty up to Stevie’s house. In evening Aunt Ava called. Dawn Parks and Stevie came after their pig. Kennard called, Blanche called also. I made cake, Jell-O and ironed.

Dawn Parks with son Steve Morgan



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