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!

Sunday, October 22, 2017

March 26 - 29, 1965



Friday, March 26, 1965

Cloudy. A snowy miserable day. I didn’t do too much work on my quilt. Betty picked over some boxes. Went to town at night. Watched TV in eve.



Saturday, March 27, 1965 Finished my quilt

A nice sunny day. Done regular work plus churned and a dite of cooking. Downtown to see the big mill chimney toppled. I went down with Bill and Carmen then Fern and Lloyd. Lloyd didn’t have to work so Fern want up for supper.



Sunday, March 28, 1965

A nice day, not too cold. I done just regular work today. Wrote to Es and Milan’s folks and Dorothea.



Monday, March 29, 1965

A cloudy cold stormy day. I washed. Clothes line broke. Betty took sheets to town and done them over for me. I got letters off to Es and Dorothea and Milan’s folks.


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