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 2, 2016

June 6 - 9, 1958



Friday, June 6, 1958

Nice day. We got up and had breakfast downtown Hartford. Had dinner at Lynnfield. Got home about 5. Nice trip and good time.



Saturday, June 7, 1958

A very nice day. I cooked some. Cleaned up the house, churned. Billie and I downtown in p.m. Fern and Lloyd up in evening. Up on Ridge after supper, got some plants.



Sunday, June 8, 1958

Fair in a.m. They got the barn sprayed today and white trim on. It looks so nice. Bill and I up to Aunt Ava’s in p.m. Over to Aunt Linnie’s in eve. She isn’t very well.

Looking Good!




Monday, June 9, 1958

A nice day, quite warm during the day. I washed. Lassie got up in a tree way down on power line. Lloyd and Bill and Betty got her down. Norma Wildberger called in p.m.

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