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, February 17, 2017

July 20 - 23, 1962



Friday, July 20, 1962

A nice day. Betty came home from Dawn’s today. She misses Mike awful. And Mike misses her. Two years left now. I done up the housework. Dawn here for a little while. Betty had a good time as usual at Dawn’s. Blanche here today. I went to town. Fern up this evening. A beautiful day, Lassie and I took a short walk down in the 9 acre field. David Witham missing.



Saturday, July 21, 1962

Cloudy dreary day. Some rain showers. Billie didn’t get to bed early, up late. They found David Witham today. He had shot himself in a lonely and deserted back woods road. In p.m. it cleared. Betty, Bill and I with good old Lassie, we went down and helped Jean a little while then took a ride up through Stoneham, Lovell, Sweden and home. Fern came up after dark and stayed till Lloyd came. Billie and Arthur put up the fence around the field for the cows.



Sunday, July 22, 1962 String Beans

Partly cloudy. High clouds. I done up the work. Not much going on here. Fern and Lloyd called. Billie worked for Lawrence haying. Picked first mess of string beans. I also picked some raspberries.



Monday, July 23, 1962

Fair in late p.m. A strong east wind and it was damp. I got the clothes in. I done the ironing. Betty done some ironing. She is getting her magazines read. Blanche called in a.m. In evening Kennard called. Today the first Telstar programs were received back and forth to Europe. It was very interesting all afternoon.

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