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, November 5, 2017

May 21 - 24, 1965



Friday, May 21, 1965

A very beautiful day. I cleaned the back porch. Aunt Ava and Uncle Lewis over and got some dressing for their garden (flowers). Betty and Mike downtown. Mike up to Chet’s. Don and Jeanette called. Mike and Don over to Fryeburg. Bill to Portland tonight to drive some cars down for Ford Motor Company.



Saturday, May 22, 1965 Carmen to doctors, nerves bad

A very nice day. I cleaned up the house. Betty worked and cleaned up her house. Then slept. Billie worked and finished at Chet’s. Mike worked on car. Chet Osgood here and Don Roakes. Bill didn’t do much in p.m. Betty took Carmen to Dr. Richards. She is in bad shape because of her nerves. Needs a specialist help. Got to move away for her sake. I hate to have them take her away.



Sunday, May 23, 1965

Kind of cloudy in a.m., cleared in pm, a very nice pretty day. Bill painted, worked in the garden. Billie down to Berwick with Boyntons. Mike slept. He and Betty up early and down in the woods. Mike got five nice trout. Betty and I out riding and looking for a place for them to live. Bob, Fern and Lloyd called.



Monday, May 24, 1965

A nice day, on the windy side. I washed. Ringer was all right. Got clothes in and folded. They dried good. Bill painted after supper.



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