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!

Sunday, March 6, 2016

June 22 - 25, 1958



Sunday, June 22, 1958

Bill painted the side of the barn and finished the trim on the red barn. We picked 2 quarts strawberries. I wrote my letters. Fern and Lloyd called and Aunt Ava, Uncle Lewis and Raymond. I got $15 from Mary Saxby for cleaning her cottage.

Red Barn - freshly painted




Monday, June 23, 1958

A very nice day. I washed, clothes dried good. I washed the kitchen windows inside and out. Betty up to Dawn’s all day to a cookout. I called over to Aunt Linnie’s in evening. Billie and Chet down to Falmouth today for load of pigs.



Tuesday, June 24, 1958

A very nice hot day. I done up the work. Went over and worked for Mrs. Rushmore $8.75. Bill and I picked 12 quarts strawberries after supper. Took them down to Ferns, she sold them. I got $15 from Seevers.



Wednesday, June 25, 1958

A nice day, hot. I worked for Mrs. Rushmore, cleaned her cottage. Sally and Gordon called.

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