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!

Monday, May 22, 2017

August 2 - 5,1963



Friday, August 2, 1963

Cloudy, misty all day. Churned. Washed. To town in evening. Mike stayed home with Carmen. Susan and Norma all agag tonight over boys. They met Bill Brown and Sammy. Wow.



Saturday, August 3, 1963



I baked a big pot of beans. Made rolls, donuts and pies. Cleaned up the house. Betty, Mike, Carmen and I to Norway.



Sunday, August 4, 1963

Didn’t get up very early. I cooked, churned, done work all day. Cleared off in p.m. Fern, Lloyd called. Kennie, Dot called. Aunt Ava called. Kennard called. Bill down to Ferns and Lloyd’s in p.m. Bob and Blanche here. We had a heavy thunder shower in a.m. Art and family were here. Billie and Art put up electric fence. Milan and Betty rested. Norma and Susan over to the beach. Betty and Mike out till late.



Monday, August 5, 1963

Another one of those all day washed days. Washed, and got supper. Norma and Susan over to North Bridgton beach. Betty and Mike out on a picnic. In evening an agent from Maine Line Homes came to see Betty and Mike. He will come again next summer when Mike is out of the service. Kennard called after supper. Milan and Betty gone away all day.

Betty at an abandoned shack

Mike out canoeing

Sand Pond in Sebago



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