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, March 17, 2016

August 8 - 12, 1958



Friday, August 8, 1958

A nice day. I looked all my cards and gifts over. Dawn called.



Saturday, August 9, 1958

A very nice day. I cooked, cleaned up the house.



Sunday, August 10, 1958 Betty gone away.

A very nice day. Bill painted back side of the barn red. He and I went to Lovell in a.m. and p.m. Charlie Weymouth called. Fern, Lloyd came up, took me down to their place and went in the field for a ride. Betty gone to Portland to visit.





Monday, August 11, 1958

I washed today. A very nice day. I ironed in p.m. Not much doing today. Missed Betty today.



Tuesday, August 12, 1958

I went blueberrying with Dawn over to Otisfield. I churned in a.m. Nothing doing.

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