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!

Friday, March 25, 2016

September 15 - 19, 1958



Monday, September 15, 1958 Hot

I washed. Had supper on porch tonight. I went up to Lil’s and got some shell beans.



Tuesday, September 16, 1958

A cloudy day. I ironed. We shelled and froze shell beans. Billie out to supper.



Wednesday, September 17, 1958

Cold, cloudy. I churned, cooked, cleaned up the house. We canned corn. I sent Betty’s school insurance.



Thursday, September 18, 1958

Rain. Bill didn’t work. He and I fixed the dining room chairs. Mama down to Ferns. In p.m. Bill and I went over to Twitchell’s in Oxford. Kay up here for supper.



Friday, September 19, 1958

Cloudy. Bill went to work. He had to go to Auburn so he asked me to go. I did.
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