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!

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

September 7 - 10, 1963



Saturday, September 7, 1963

A very nice pretty day. I cooked. I got the kitchen ready to paint the floor. Bill and I painted it in the afternoon. Betty up to Chet’s. Down to Fern and Lloyd’s with Carmen. Aunt Ava not very good. Dolores called. Painted kitchen floor. Fern up for supper. Betty and I to town  and Aunt Ava. Betty to movies with Bonnie.



Sunday, September 8, 1963 Pullets

Got our pullets at Cornwell’s at Oxford ME. Billie bought 15. We called at the Phil Hunt’s. Mama went with us. Betty and I called at Aunt Ava’s and Uncle Lewis’s. Kennie and Dot here in p.m. Bill got a haircut.



Monday, September 9, 1963

Hot hot. A very nice day after the fog burned off. Very hot. Did a wash. Made two pies. Had fricassee chicken. Kay here for supper. She and Betty went horseback riding after supper. Betty took Kay home. Betty got a letter from MIKE. He is homesick but glad he only has less than a year. I got a letter from Adair’s. Betty called Dorothea.



Tuesday, September 10, 1963

Very nice day. I cleaned up the back porch and painted the floor. Got a boiled dinner ready. We did the ironing. Had Fern up for supper. Boiled dinner very good.


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