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!

Saturday, September 10, 2016

November 16 - 19, 1960




Wednesday, November 16, 1960

Billie’s eye better. Lloyd got his leg sawed today on his power saw. I didn’t do much today. Kind of took it easy in a.m. I went down town with Lloyd. Rowena and Linda up here tonight.




Thursday, November 17, 1960

A nice day, very windy. I washed, the clothes dried very good. Mama over to Aunt Ava’s. I cleaned up part of the house. Betty home, Rowena here tonight.



Friday, November 18, 1960

A very nice day. I cleaned up the living room, changed furniture around. Churned and ironed. Tonight is the senior play, Betty is there. Betty had a tooth pulled today. She weren’t feeling very good tonight when she got home. She is almost sick from being so tired after setting up late every night this week. To town tonight and got groceries for Thanksgiving. Billie got his snow tread tires today. Bill had a load of black top for driveway in today. Over to Harrison tonight and paid Harvard for the black top $20.



Saturday, November 19, 1960

A very nice day. I was quite busy all day. Bill and Billie worked in the tie up in p.m. Betty and I got ready to have Dawn and George here for supper. Betty made Dawn a birthday cake. Raymond was over too. Linda and Sally Berry and Ann Fessenden called. Bill rolled out the hard top in front of the barn door. So he can drive the car in.


Surprise Birthday Party for Dawn


L-R Nanny, Mabel, George, Dawn, Larry Nevers holding Susan Nevers, and Ellen Nevers. Allie Smith seated

Best Friends Dawn and Betty
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