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, October 22, 2016

April 24 - 27, 1961



Monday, April 24, 1961

Cloudy and cool. I washed and hung my clothes out back for first time. They dried pretty good.



Tuesday, April 25, 1961

Cloudy and a dreary day. I ironed. A fire (grass) up to Irene’s.




Wednesday, April 26, 1961

Cloudy. I began on my kitchen cabinets. Lloyd came up. I went down town with him.



Thursday, April 27, 1961

A nice sunny day, on the cool side. I washed. Done some more of the cupboards. I cleaned up the chambers. Betty had company all night. Valerie, Linda. They went on a picnic afterschool up to Irene’s in evening. She got a letter from Mike. She don’t care for him anymore. Bill down to Dr. Taylor’s. I went with him. We called at Jean’s.

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