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!

Saturday, September 2, 2017

September 13 - 15, 1964 Off to Scotland!




Sunday, September 13, 1964

Cloudy in a.m. fog. I washed, done up my work. Went down to the Cemetery. Billie worked all day. I got supper. Fern, Lloyd came up. I got my suitcases ready. Kennie and Dot up.



 Monday, November 14, 1964

A beautiful day which we have been waiting for for about five months. I got my permanent, went to town on business. Came home and Fern had a delicious chicken supper we ate, then we began to get ready. I am sure excited today. We got ready and Betty took a picture. I kissed them all goodbye and poor Carmen was crying.

Althea and Bill's 1964 Passport photo



Tuesday, September 15, 1964 TODAY WE LANDED IN SCOTLAND

What a new life I have lived today. It began last night when we walked out of our home at 5 PM. On our way to Boston, boarded the train at 10:30 PM, rode all night and what a beautiful plane. Nice smooth ride. Ate twice. Landed at Shannon. Got off for a short time than back on and off to Dublin, then we went to Glasgow. There we met George and Betty. In evening off to see Peg, Beat and their families.
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