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!

Monday, April 4, 2016

October 30 - November 3, 1958



Thursday, October 30, 1958

Nice day. Bill worked. I washed the windows on the outside. Windy. Baby is real good. Holly came down with their baby, Randy Scott Smart.



Friday, October 31, 1958

I done up the work. Washed storm windows. To town in p.m. with Fern and Lloyd. Betty was terribly disappointed tonight, stubborn too. Windy.



Saturday, November 1, 1958

A very cold day, some wind. I cooked, churned, done up the work. Betty had a disagreeable day, not too happy. Billie got the storm windows on.



Sunday, November 2, 1958

A very nice pretty day. A busy one. Billie got his dressing hauled. Warren Stewart bought the end heater $50. Blanche called. Betty helped Billie. Bill helped Lloyd get wood. Lloyd, Kennard and Blanche called.



Monday, November 3, 1958

Rained. I didn’t wash. I churned in p.m. Bill didn’t work.
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