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, May 20, 2017

July 25 - 28, 1963



Thursday, July 25, 1963

Hot Hot Hot. Up in the 90s today. Fern, Lloyd, Norma, Susan, Blanche, Eva, Ruthann and I all went for a picnic down to Sebago Lake Park. We had a real good time. Betty, Mike and Carmen went all alone over to North Bridgton Beach. They enjoyed being by themselves. Made sandwiches and we ate outside tonight. After supper Bill and I went over to Ernest Holden’s. Betty, Mike, Carmen, Susan, Norma and Fern and I all over to North Bridgton Beach.



Friday, July 26, 1963

Continued heat, a heat waved.



Saturday, July 27, 1963

Hot Hot. So hot, I baked beans, made donuts. Kennard called. Fern up in pm and for supper. Billie up to Chet’s in p.m. haying. Billie mowed lawns, picked beans and peas.



Sunday, July 28, 1963

Hot Hot Hot. We are still having very hot weather. We have picked some more cukes. I froze some Swiss chard. Been busy all day. We only had sandwiches. Betty and Mike called on his grandmother. Mike over to the brook. Kids, Norma and Susan over to the North Bridgton Beach.


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