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 25, 2016

July 17 - 20, 1959 Norma Arrives For a Couple Weeks



Friday, July 17, 1959

Another nice hot day. I cooked, done up the work. Paul came and raked the hay. Bill and I to town, paid bills and got groceries. In evening Gordon Sanborn baled the hay and they got it all in. FINISHED HAYING



Saturday, July 18, 1959

Another hot sunny day. Milan and Norma came early this morning. Worked all day. Betty, Pat and Norma and Jeannie went swimming in p.m. Milan and Norma got run into by a deer on the way up here last night. Billie helping Raymond hay tonight. MIKE left today for Auburn. He will stay over there to Auburn with his father and going to Edward Little High.


Michael Boutilier - age 14



Sunday, July 19, 1959

Hot. Milan up early this morning and left for home. Rest of us didn’t get up very early. Billie and Betty mowed lawns. Kids swimming this p.m. Showers in p.m. Raymond called.




Monday, July 20, 1959

Good in the first part of day. In late p.m. it clouded up and rained. I washed, got the clothes dried. Kids all went swimming. In evening I done up the ironing. Betty and Pat out babysitting. Billie sold his calf tonight to Davis Kimball.





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