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, March 31, 2017

January 5 - 8,1963



Saturday, January 5, 1963

Cloudy all day. Mild. Bill put the new switches in the kitchen. Betty, Jeff, Dorothea and I made root beer. I made cake, pie, rolls and beans. Kennie and Dot here. Fern up in evening and for supper. No letter for Betty.



Sunday, January 6, 1963

Cloudy. Mild. Got up kind of late. Done up the work. Bill called at Gordon’s. Betty down to get the paper. Aunt Ava called. Kennie, Dot called. Jeff outside this morning. Betty don’t feel good. She has felt miserable all day. In p.m. Dorothea, Jeff and I went for a ride.



Monday, January 7, 1963

Mild. Partly cloudy. I washed. In p.m. Dorothea, Betty, Jeff and I went to Denmark, over to Moose Pond, looking at houses. Kennard called and Blanche in PM. Dorothea and Betty down to Barb and Phil’s in evening. Began using five cents stamps today.



Tuesday, January 8, 1963

A very nice day. Mild. We ironed and done up all the work.

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