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 30, 2016

September 23 - 26, 1961






Saturday, September 23, 1961

HOT HOT. Betty worked for Blanche. I cooked, washed, cleaned up the house. Dolores here in a.m. In evening Blanche and I took Betty over to Auburn to see Mike’s mother. Betty was so much happier after she came home from there. She had heard his mother wasn’t going to let Mike marry. Billie busy all day.



Sunday, September 24, 1961

Hot. Finished cutting the beef up today. Mama went for a ride with Kennie, Dot and Dolores. In p.m. after a steak cookout dinner at Fern and Lloyd’s, Bill, Billie, Betty and I, we went for a ride up through Conway, Eaton and Freedom New Hampshire.



Monday, September 25, 1961

A mean cloudy rainy day. We need the rain very much. Glad we had it. I canned tomatoes. Betty ironed. Hot and muggy.



Tuesday, September 26, 1961

Cloudy with showers. I washed after it cleared off. Quite warm and muggy. Billie and I down to Jean’s in forenoon. Betty did most of my washing while I was gone.



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