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, September 28, 2016

January 21 - 24, 1961



Saturday, January 21, 1961

15° below this morning. Mama still quite sick. I didn’t do any cooking today. In p.m. Betty and Rowena to town. Bill plowed out the yard in p.m. Had a good old baked beans supper.



Sunday, January 22, 1961

25° below zero this morning. Oh this awful cold. Didn’t get up very early. A lot of company. Dawn and Steve, Kennie, Dot, Fern, Lloyd, Blanche and Kennard.

Hamilton Collection

Monday, January 23, 1961

20° below this morning. I washed. Done some cooking. Lloyd called this morning. It was so cold hanging the clothes out. Mama quite sick.







Tuesday, January 24, 1961

Uncle Os and Lloyd up to see Mama. She is still quite sick. I got some of the clothes in. Rowena went home tonight.


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