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!

Thursday, June 15, 2017

November 6 - 9, 1963



Wednesday, November 6, 1963

Cloudy and drizzly most all day. I cooked. Got supper under way. Fern came up for supper. Lloyd cut up the meat. Bill wrapped it in evening. I tried out the lard. Carmen didn’t feel too good.



Thursday, November 7, 1963 Rain

Rained hard all day and all evening with high winds. I worked then went to 63 South High St. to work. Rained so hard all evening. Bonnie here and Blanche. Carmen has another tooth. I finished trying out the lard.



Friday, November 8, 1963

Lloyd cut up rest of the meat. I done up the work, went to town in p.m. with Fern and Lloyd. We bought Carol’s gift for wedding. They then took me to work. Rained hard all day. $49 paid because Monday is the holiday. Water from faucet, good old water.



Saturday, November 9, 1963


Cloudy, rainy, dreary day. Betty, Carmen, Blanche and I to Portland. I got new shoes, two new dresses. We got the TIRES for the car. Snow treads. Fern up tonight.

 



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