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, January 30, 2016

January 24 - 28, 1958



Friday, January 24, 1958

A very nice day. I did up the regular work. Read all the papers. Television went out black today. In p.m. went down and watched Ferns.



Saturday, January 25, 1958

A cloudy and rainy day. Bill didn’t work. Billie up to Chet’s and over to Raymonds. Betty to movies. Dawn and Blanche called. Betty got another bird. Bill and I to town in p.m. Box came from D and D.



Sunday, January 26, 1958

Another cloudy rainy day. Did up the work. Betty and Dawn to church. I went over to Aunt Linnie’s, they had open house for her birthday. Bob, Blanche, Fern and family called. Had a very nice party for Aunt Linnie.



Monday, January 27, 1958

Cloudy and rainy. I washed. Bill over to Blanche's to paint. In evening Billie and I called at Aunt Ava’s and Uncle Lewis’s.



Tuesday, January 28, 1958

Snow last night and today. Rain also. I cooked, got clothes and dried them mostly inside. In p.m. Billie and I up to Blanche to see how the rooms look she and Bill are painting. Called at Ferns too. Bill and I called at Hayd’s in the evening.

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