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!

Thursday, January 12, 2017

February 27 - March 2, 1962



Tuesday, February 27, 1962

20 above. Cloudy. I done up my work. Fern, Lloyd called. Kennard and Amy Linscott  and Dr.(?) Bishberger.  In evening Billie and I called at Fern and Kennard and Delores’s.





Wednesday, February 28, 1962

Up in the 30s. Cloudy. I done up the housework. Made a cake and beef stew. Blanche here in p.m. Snowed some today. We all got cards from Betty today.


Thursday, March 1, 1962

After 3 days of cloudy snow and sleety weather we have a nice day. It has been very warm these past days tho. It has cleared today and colder, also windy. Kennard has been up here all day shoveling our porch roofs, also cut all the ice off, did a good job. A big celebration in New York City for John Glenn Junior. Also a bad plane crash. 97 killed.



Friday, March 2, 1962 Betty and Mike called

Cold and windy. Blanche and I went to Portland. It was so awful cold and windy. A nice sunny day tho. Fern up here and stayed with Mama. I got this diary today. Also got writing tablets and envelopes. Betty and Mike called tonight. They have an apartment to move into. Need some money. Tonight Billie took me to town. We paid bills and more bills.



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