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, February 9, 2017

June 19 - 22, 1962 Height of the Land Roadtrip



Tuesday, June 19, 1962

Cloudy and rained. Not very cold. Betty and I papered the dark bedroom. Mike up to Augusta and Auburn. Will be gone overnight. Billie helped Arthur all day do his fencing.



Wednesday, June 20, 1962

Cloudy. I ironed, cooked chicken. In evening it cleared off. Bill laid the rug up in the dark bedroom and hallway after supper. We got the bed moved in there. Betty up to the corner and called in evening. David came up here in the evening. Mike called back from Augusta and Auburn late in evening. He won’t be home till tomorrow night.



Thursday, June 21, 1962

A very nice hot day. I cleaned up the whole house, washed floors etc. Billie went for a ride with Arthur Wards family up as far as Vermont, up through the White Mountains. Betty, Blanche and I called at Lida Brackett’s this p.m. Mike at home very late from Auburn. Picked 3 quarts.



Friday, June 22, 1962

A very nice day. Billie, Betty, Mike, Blanche and I took a trip up and through northern Maine. Also stopped at Andover to see the earth satellite. It is very interesting. We stopped at Rumford for a hamburger and hot dog lunch. Way up through the Height of the Land on up toward Rangeley and back through Wilson’s Mills, Errol, New Hampshire. Had a nice time. To town and down to Jean’s in evening.


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