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, February 18, 2017

July 24 - 27, 1962



Tuesday, July 24, 1962

Rain. It began raining about 8:30 or 9 PM last night. Rain and showers all day, cleared in late p.m. Cold. We picked peas and raspberries after supper.



Wednesday, July 25, 1962

A nice day. I got my work done early, went over to Aunt Ava’s and Uncle Lewis’s. In evening Fern came up and stayed all evening. Turn cows into new pasture tonight.



Thursday, July 26, 1962

Rain rain rain. Cold. It rained all day. I didn’t do much in particular. Some odds and end jobs. Betty didn’t do much either. I picked some string beans in a.m. before it began to rain. In evening Kennie and Dot called. Betty got a letter from her husband. Art and girls here. I held his little baby for him. Robin (?) Jennifer. Jacqueline Donna Smith 19 years today.



Friday, July 27, 1962

No rain but cold, cloudy and windy. I done up the work , got Dorothea’s birthday cards off. Blanche and I to town. Mama not very good today. She went to bed early. I picked string beans and raspberries. Froze the beans. Betty over to Blanche’s. No letter from MIKE. We have had such cold, cloudy and rainy weather this month. We have to have the house closed up all the time.



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