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, December 17, 2016

November 26 - 29, 1961



Sunday, November 26, 1961 MIKE LEFT

A nice day. Mike up and left to go back to Fort Dix. I went to Portland with Bob. Aunt Ava got mad at me.



Monday, November 27, 1961

Nice day. I washed, cleaned up the shed chamber, churned and cooked a little. Betty to the dentist. Billie is quite upset. He is planning to get rid of his cows first of the year. Betty and Mike got a very pretty card and five dollar gift from Milan, Betty and Norma today.



Tuesday, November 28, 1961

Cold and cloudy. I did the ironing. Betty expected to go away. Not much doing today. Billie on the blue side. I pity him so.



Wednesday, November 29, 1961

Generally fair, cold. Kind of cold. I done up my work, fixed the couch. Minnie and Randy called. The US sent up a monkey or chimpanzee into a flight around the world. Very successful. Betty down to Mrs. Wells to finish her ironing.

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