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, November 25, 2017

August 8 - 11, 1965 Nanny's Birthday



Sunday, August 8, 1965

Today we done regular work then took a ride and back down to Ferns and all of them had a very nice birthday dinner for me. Very nice. Complete surprise. Mike worked.



Monday, August 9, 1965

Dorothea and I washed. Kind of cloudy. Clothes dried. Rained off and on. Mike worked at Linscott’s. Aunt Ava called, we picked shell beans.



Tuesday, August 10, 1965

RAIN. Thunder showers. Real heavy showers in evening. Dorothea over to Aunt Ava’s for afternoon and very late evening. Betty, Carmen, Jeff and I called on Fern in evening.



Wednesday, August 11, 1965

Rain showers. We did some cooking. Randy Harmon and brother called. In evening Betty and I, Jeff and Carmen over to Aunt Ava’s and showed them the slides. Dorothea over there all p.m.



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