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!

Sunday, February 12, 2017

June 30 - July 3, 1962 NEW GRANDCHILD ON THE WAY



Saturday, June 30, 1962

A nice day, hot. Betty, Mike, Timmy and Mary Lou all went over to North Bridgton swimming, then over to Norway with Mike’s mother when she called. I done a little cooking and cleaned up the whole house. Betty and Mike downtown in evening. Billie put pigs outside.



Sunday, July 1, 1962

A nice day. Got ready to go on picnic. Bill down to Jean’s in a.m. In PM Kennie, Dot, Blanche, Betty, Mike, Bill and I all went on a picnic and for a long ride and called it Dawn’s new home. Fern, Lloyd called and Charles Virgin. Billie mowed hay for Lawrence. Norma Gay out to Ohio to Demings, went by jet plane. Picked 15 quarts.



Monday, July 2, 1962

A nice day, not too hot. I washed. Mike got his call for Portland. He has got to go back to Fort Lewis July 5. Betty, Mike and I went down in the woods for our annual walk. I picked greens, froze some. I picked over some strawberries and froze them. In evening Bessie and Rowena called, also Arts family. Art came and got his pigs. Picked 1 quart.



Tuesday, July 3, 1962 A NEW GRANDCHILD IS A COMING

Betty and Mike to Dr. Richard’s today. He told them they are to become parents in January or February 1963. I worked, but didn’t accomplish much. Now we are making plans for the new baby. Aunt Ava called. I gave her two boxes berries. I picked 9 quarts.

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