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, September 26, 2017

December 16 - 19, 1964



Wednesday, December 16, 1964

A nice day. I finished my cleaning to the kitchen. Bill got a birthday card and $5.00 from Adair’s.



Thursday, December 17, 1964

Partly cloudy. I ironed, put up my kitchen curtains. Done up my regular work. Betty and Mike out a couple times. They are glad to be together after such a long time and upsets.



Friday, December 18, 1964

Betty, Carmen and I to Norway and done some Christmas shopping. Delores went with us. Came home, the slides had come from Dorothea. We looked at them in evening. I didn’t go to town tonight.



Saturday, December 19, 1964

A cold day but fair. Betty and I to Portland. We got a slide PROJECTOR for slides with Betty’s plaid stamps. Came home, got Fern. Got supper and saw all the pictures on screen. We enjoyed them very much. Betty and Mike gone over to Don Roakes. Carmen had her hair cut. Billie worked at Lawrence’s. To town today.

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