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, May 4, 2016

April 4 - 8, 1959



Saturday, April 4, 1959

Cloudy, dismal. Done up the work. Called at Dolores in p.m., also Ferns. Mike and David up in p.m. I cooked, took an apple pie up to Dolores’s. Snow gone a lot.



Sunday, April 5, 1959

A very nice day. Had dinner early. Raymond here for dinner. Dawn and George called. Fern and Lloyd. In p.m. Dolores and I went over to Fryeburg with Aunt Ava and Uncle Lewis to see Os Abbott. Bill raked some of the lawn. Don C. called Bill back to work.



Monday, April 6, 1959 Jeffrey Dennis Adair nine months

Bill went back to work.I cooked early this morning. Also I washed this forenoon. Billie downtown. Cloudy and rain showers.



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Tuesday, April 7, 1959

A very nice day. I ironed, done up the work. In p.m. Billie and I drove over to Jim’s. Aunt Ava and Hilda called. Raymond called and brought over some old pictures. Billie finished raking. They burned the raked grass tonight.



Wednesday, April 8, 1959

Billie working down to Hayd’s. Today Aunt Ava’s throwed her hip out of joint. Billie over and took her to the doctors after supper. Been cloudy, cold side.
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