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!

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

July 4 - 7, 1958 Jeffrey Dennis Adair Born



Friday, July 4, 1958

A fair day. Billie mowed the hay. I picked berries. Milan’s folks came about 9:30. Norma Gay came to stay for two weeks.

Norma and Lassie - Summer of 1958



Saturday, July 5, 1958

A nice day in forenoon, clouded up in late p.m. I picked berries. Milan, Betty and kids down town and over to Fryeburg. Billie mowed rest of the grass. Aunt Linnie not too good.



Sunday, July 6, 1958

Jeffrey Dennis Adair the son of Dennis Harvey and Dorothea Crook Adair born at 3 PM Western daylight savings time at (Nanny never finished with where!)



Monday, July 7, 1958

A cloudy day and now I am a grandmother. Got the call from Dennis at 1 AM Eastern daylight time. 9 o’clock W. D. S. time in Riverside. It was so nice talking to him, all about his family.



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