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, January 8, 2016

November 1 - 4, 1957 Rain Finally



Friday, November 1, 1957 RAIN

Cloudy damp day. I cleaned rest of the kitchen, washed the curtains and ironed them and put them back up in evening. Went to town after Bill got home. Bill and Billie got some water tonight. Betty is home tonight.



Saturday, November 2, 1957

Another rainy day and awful hard all night. Bill home all day. I worked all day. Raymond called also Kennard.



Sunday, November 3, 1957 RAIN

Another rainy day. Kennie and Dot here for dinner. Bill and Billie fixed up the molasses barrel. Lila and Bill over to aunt Linnie for weekend. Donnie okay. Betty better awful cough. Second Sputnik went up today with a dog in it from Russia.



Monday, November 4, 1957

Cloudy and some rain. I did a big wash. Bill put up a light in the hallway. We bought jacket for Betty. Mrs. Ayers called tonight. Raymond Leavitt called tonight.






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