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!

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

July 2 - 6, 1960




Saturday, July 2, 1960 A very good day

After a few hours of cloudiness in a.m. it cleared off hot. Bill, Jean and I drove to Andover,Massachusetts to George Keith’s wife’s funeral. Mary Keith. We saw many of Bill’s relatives. We saw the shop where Bills father used to work in his store he used to have also the houses where they used to live. It was a nice trip, we had a good day. Used Billie’s car. It run very good. Didn’t get home till late.



Sunday, July 3, 1960

Cloudy except for a little while in the a.m. Bill and Billie began tarring the lower barn roof. Bob, Joy and Debbie called in a.m. Raymond in p.m. Also Bob’s whole family in p.m. Blanche took some four generation pictures. Lloyd and Fern in here in p.m. too. Lloyd, Buddy, Joy, Debbie and I to played croquet. Betty not home all day. Daniel Porter died this afternoon.



Monday, July 4, 1960 Mowed Hay

A fair day. I washed. Paul Hodson mowed the hay. Billie took Fern and I down to see the parade. Very good. Allen Nash and family called here this p.m. Also Phil Hudson and family called and Kennie, Dot and Karen. Betty not home today. She took in all of the Fourth of July affair. Got paid today $33.



Tuesday, July 5, 1960

Very nice and clear this morning. About 10 o’clock it clouded up and got real cold. I had to turn the furnace on. Aunt Ava called. Billie didn’t have the hay baled or raked. Karen went to the hospital for x-rays etc. Joan left hospital today. I paid L. C. Andrews’s today.



Wednesday, July 6, 1960 Jeff 2 today   Haying all Done

Nice and clear this morning, about 10 all cloudy. More sunshine today than yesterday. The hay dried better. Paul raked and Gordon Sanborn baled it. Raymond, Billie, Paul, Erwin and Bobby got it in. Dot and Kennie called. Daniel Porter buried today.
JEFFREY DENNIS ADAIR is 2 years old today.

Jeffrey on his birthday in England


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