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!

Thursday, May 26, 2016

July 21 - 24, 1959 Milan's Birthday



Tuesday, July 21, 1959 Milan Elliott Smith’s birthday

A very nice hot day. I washed. Kids all went swimming. Dolores called. Done ironing today. LETTER from Adair’s.



 


 Wednesday, July 22, 1959

A hot day. I churned. Worked all day. Kids swimming. Tired all out. Dr. Nash not feeling very well, he had his son come up and get him. He’s gone for a day or so.



Thursday, July 23, 1959

Another awful hot day. Kids at home all this forenoon. At noon time Bill took them to North Bridgton to go swimming. In evening they went over to Dawn’s mothers with her to swim. I cooked, washed, ironed etc. We canned some string beans. A VERY NICE BIG PHOTO FROM JEFFREY DENNIS ADAIR.

Dorothea and Jeffrey Adair July 1959



Friday, July 24, 1959

Today I cooked and churned. Kids swimming in p.m. and evening. Dr. Nash didn’t come back tonight. Bill, Norma, Pat and I to town in late p.m. Kennard called in p.m.



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