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, November 2, 2016

June 5 - 7, 1961



Monday, June 5, 1961

A nice day. On the windy side. Clothes dried very good. I cleaned the back porch today after I got washing done. Betty to school and to the class picnic in evening. Mike came up and some friends, they went somewhere. Billie working tonight.




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Tuesday, June 6, 1961

Hot. I cleaned up the house upstairs and down. I put on screens, washed windows, cooked. Betty home at noon. Rowena came with her. The class went to the town hall today to decorate. She took a bath and went to bed early. All tired out and exhausted from picnic and being out with Mike. I ironed after supper. Aunt Ava called. Roy Clement and his wife called in evening. Billie working tonight.



Wednesday, June 7, 1961 Carleton Smith’s birthday

MICHAEL CLYDE BOUTILIER

Today it was fair but windy. I did some odds and ends jobs. Churned. Betty home at noon, rode Phantom for a little while, got ready to go to the banquet. Went with Justin McAllister, Merle Chaplin and Randy Harmon. Ellen Valley, Rowena Robinson. Dot, Lorraine and Wanda Jean came up, brought Betty up gifts. Billie working tonight.




MIKE graduated from Edward Little High in Auburn tonight. The best to him, hope he has a very happy future with the right woman (Betty) I hope.
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