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 9, 2016

October 26 - 30, 1961



Thursday, October 26, 1961

A nice day. I ironed, made pies. Cat is about the same. Didn’t eat very much.



Friday, October 27, 1961

I done up the work, cleaned up the house. To town after supper. Betty to town in evening to the movies. Ma and Pa Kettle. Came home.



Saturday, October 28, 1961

A nice day. I cooked. Betty rode phantom. Billie worked today. Lloyd cut the pig up. Bill wrapped it. Got it into the deep freeze.



Monday, October 30, 1961 Letter from Adair’s

Cloudy. I didn’t wash. I churned, done up the work. Betty got lunch. I wrote letters. I got a nice sweet letter today from my grandson. Jeffrey Dennis Adair. Russians sent a big bomb off today.


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