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, August 25, 2016

September 11 - 14, 1960 Hurricane Donna



Sunday, September 11, 1960

Cloudy in a.m. It may rain. We sure need it. Bill and Lloyd went after a stove. It began to rain about noon. Bill and I cleaned up the new stove. Billie went over to Lawrence Potter’s to see some beef cattle. Rowena here in p.m. and done her studying with Betty. Kay and David here today. Bob, Blanche, Kennie, Dot and Ernest Holden here.



Monday, September 12, 1960 Killed Beef

HURRICANE (DONNA)
Cloudy and rained all day, about 4:30 PM wind began to blow hard. Rained hard too. Between 6 and 8 was at its height here. No damage around here. A lot of damage in around Boston and Cape Cod. Connecticut and Rhode Island. Also down the Atlantic Coast and very bad in Florida at the Florida Keys. I didn’t wash. The heifer went today to be butchered. Lawrence brought a bull (Hereford). No school in p.m. Betty stayed at Rowena’s, they did their school work. Bessie brought her home.



Tuesday, September 13, 1960

A beautiful day after the Donna parade. Nothing harmed here. I washed and churned. Bill and Billie got the stove in and got it set up. Bill will finish it tomorrow night.



Wednesday, September 14, 1960

A nice day, on the cool side. I ironed, cooked, cleaned up the house. Betty and Rowena came home early after school, got her letter she got from MIKE. Went back down and came home about 9:30. Bill finished setting up the kitchen stove. Went down town with Lloyd and got Mama her new clock radio. Very pretty. I paid light bill. One hundred to H. E. Burnham. Roger McDonald saw Bill about a 1957 Plymouth.




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