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!

Thursday, January 7, 2016

October 28 - 31, 1957



Monday, October 28, 1957

I washed early. Oil man fixed range oil tank. I cleaned grain room, top of barn. Betty better today. Today we had a nice anniversary gift from Dorothea and Dennis.



Tuesday, October 29, 1957

Cloudy in a.m. In p.m. clear seasonable temperatures. I didn’t do much except iron. Betty down to Dawn’s all day. Dawn came up and brought her home.



Wednesday, October 30, 1957

A fair day. Betty back to school. She had nosebleed early this morning. Again about 4 PM and again about 9 PM. Mama down to Ferns today. I cleaned up the two spare bedrooms today. Got a letter from Dorothea and Dennis.


Thursday, October 31, 1957

I began cleaning in the kitchen, did some cupboards. Betty came home with Dawn tonight. Got her clothes and went back up to stay all night, for a Halloween party. Billie and Chet came down with water today from Abbotts.
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