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!

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

July 31 - August 3, 1964



Friday, July 31, 1964

Very nice day, on the cool side. I picked beans. Dawn Parks called and David Nevers. Both here for supper. Their father and mother called to get them. I had to go to town in p.m.



Saturday, August 1, 1964

Nice day. Not so cool today. A nice sunny day. I cooked in a.m. I cleaned up the house. Es and Billie came up. Es, Susan, Carmen and I to town, came home, got supper. After supper Betty, Mike, Susan to town and got others and went to the races at Oxford. Mike paid $50. I got my dress back today.



Sunday, August 2, 1964

Cloudy most of the day. Some rain showers, late in p.m. it cleared so we could eat outside. We had the picnic lunch for all the family outside. Thought of Mama a lot today. Been gone four months today. Still miss her a lot. Ken, Dolores, Kennie and Dot, Fern, Lloyd, Bob, Es and children, Milan, Betty and Norma and me and my family all together. Had a good supper. Also Aunt Ava and Uncle Lewis and Bruds family.



Monday, August 3, 1964

A beautiful day. I washed, (big one) clothes dried good. We done our ironing after supper. Bill wrote letter to George after supper.
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