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, August 17, 2017

July 11 - 14, 1964



Saturday, July 11, 1964 6 Days

A strong East wind. Showers. Had baked beans supper. Yates and Deming’s here. Hope next week and Mike will be here.



Sunday, July 12, 1964 5 Days

A pretty good day in p.m. it cleared. Cloudy until noon. We had a steak cookout. Brud’s family went home today. Es, Billie, Fern and Lloyd called. DOROTHEA and JEFF called. That was the best, talking to them.



Monday, July 13, 1964 4 Days

A cloudy day but I washed. Clothes dried quite well. Billie back to work.



Tuesday, July 14, 1964 3 Days

Another rainy day. We got the ironing done. Es, Fern and Lloyd came up. We fixed greens and string beans. Betty worked upstairs. Es, Billie and I to town in a.m. Bill and I had our shots. Billie Deming got stung and Christie.


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