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, May 22, 2016

July 4 - 7, 1959 Jeffrey Adair's 1st Birthday



Saturday, July 4, 1959 DEMING’S LEFT

A very nice day. Well the Deming’s left at 9 AM this morning. We enjoyed their long visit very much. Kids all cute and too active for us old folks. I cooked some, put on some screens.



Sunday, July 5, 1959 HOT

Got dinner. Bill, Billie and I picked berries. Mama hulled them. Betty rested. Billie worked up to Chet’s for a little while.



Monday, July 6, 1959 Jeffrey D Adair 1 year

Today we got a letter from Dorothea and a invitation from Jeff for his birthday party. I washed. An East wind. Clothes didn’t dry very good. Billie and I called at Lloyd and Ferns in evening.





Tuesday, July 7, 1959

I ironed and churned. A very nice drying day. I picked some berries. The Redfield’s left today for Massachusetts. Dennis went with them.



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