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, December 16, 2016

November 23 - 25, 1961 Happy Thanksgiving~!



Thursday, November 23, 1961

Cloudy. Nice day. Warm. Bill cleaned the kitchen stove. We build fire first time. Used it to help get dinner. Kennie and Dot here for dinner. Enjoyed them very much. We had chicken, roast pork, gravies, cranberry sauce, Jell-O salad, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, onions, turnip, shell beans. Rolls, Graham nut bread, date filled, custard, blueberry, lemon sponge, date pies, plain whipped cream cake and cream puffs.



Friday, November 24, 1961

Rained all day. I done up the work. After supper Bill and I to Norway, got Betty’s package at the store. Bill got him a jacket and rubbers. Betty to town in evening.



Saturday, November 25, 1961

A beautiful day. I done up the work. Cooked, made preparations for Mike. He came very late in the night. Betty off tonight. I didn’t expect her to go when she knew Mike was coming.




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