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 27, 2016

September 24 - 27, 1958



Wednesday, September 24, 1958

A nice day. I cooked and churned. Mrs. Emma Wheeler came up and spent the day. Kennie and Dot up in evening. Bill called Twitchell tonight.



Thursday, September 25, 1958

A very nice hot day. I done up the work and odd jobs. Mama up to Dorothy Prescott’s all day. Bill and I over to Twitchell’s after supper. Bill bought a hot-water furnace off him. He came over and bought ours. Calf born. Fogg cow.





 Friday, September 26, 1958

A very nice hot day. I walked over to Raymonds and got some shell beans in a.m. Evelyn called this p.m. Bill and I went to the bank.




Saturday, September 27, 1958

A cold cloudy rainy day. Rained hard at night. Bill home all day. He got the old furnace ready to move. They took it to Twitchell’s and brought the other one back. Betty to movies.
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