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!

Friday, October 21, 2016

April 20 -23, 1961



Thursday, April 20, 1961

At last a nice day. I washed, ironed, cleaned out the chest and cleaned all the bedrooms up for the week. Betty down to Linda’s. They papered. Water thawed out at the barn. Art Ward called this evening. Bill down to Dr. Taylor’s tonight.



Friday, April 21, 1961

A very nice sunny warm day. I had a ball, no one here to bother with. I done a lot of work. Mama was here, got up early. She sat out on the couch on the glassed porch. Betty home in p.m. from Valerie’s house. Had such a good time. I cleaned a closet upstairs, cleaned up the whole house. Cleaned off the front porch.



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Saturday, April 22, 1961

A cloudy dreary rainy day. I cooked. Done up the housework. Billie gone smelting tonight. Mike and a classmate of his came. They stayed all night.



Sunday, April 23, 1961

A nice sunny day. Very cool and windy. Bill worked outside. Billie took off storm windows. They raked up the back lawn. But my clothes line out.

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