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!

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

June 30 - July 3, 1958



Monday, June 30, 1958

A hot day. I washed. Showers in a.m. Betty gone all day. In evening Kay here. We picked 40 quarts berries.



Tuesday, July 1, 1958

A very hot day. I cleaned up the house. Ironed, picked berries. Betty gone all day. Dawn called. Dorothy Prescott called. In evening we picked 51 quarts berries.



Wednesday, July 2, 1958

Very hot. Picked berries. Dawn and kids called. Finished up the ironing. A shower tonight. Kennard, Holly, Betty and Bobby, Bill and I picked berries in evening.



Thursday, July 3, 1958

Not so hot. Betty and I worked at Dearborn’s in a.m. In p.m. we picked berries. Betty up to Dawn’s. They all went to drive in. Bill and I to town. We took two boxes berries over to Aunt Linnie’s  and Pegs.

Eating breakfast on Dawn's lawn 1958




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