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!

Friday, January 5, 2018

January 17 - 20, 1966



Monday, January 17, 1966 LLOYD BACK TO WORK

20° above this morning. Only eight or nine above in and around Boston. Windy but not cold. I done some of Betty and Carmen’s washing and Billie went to the DENTIST and I went down there. Then Billie took me around to do our errands. They came up and washed and Betty and Carmen went home about 1:30. I finished all my housework. Billie didn’t go to work. Lloyd back to work.



Tuesday, January 18, 1966

A very nice mild day. I done my work, ironed and over to Aunt Ava’s for the day. Had a nice time and a good dinner. Billie was there to dinner. Billie had no word as yet about going to work. Still waiting.


Wednesday, January 19, 1966 mild 35

Cloudy. Got my work done up, went down to see Betty and Carmen with Kennard. Billie came and got me. Fern and Lloyd came also Holly and her kids. In evening Betty had Louise’s baby with her for a while, while Louise went to the hospital to see her father. I came home from Betty’s, made a pie, washed the windows, put up a new curtain in the bathroom. Down to Betty’s in evening a minute.



Thursday, January 20, 1966

Very mild, middle 30s. Cloudy. I done up my work, made lemon sponge pie and chocolate. Carmen and Betty came up here. Fern and Lloyd called. Today Betty got a money order of $39 from Mike. She and I went to town and she paid on her chair. Then we went to Norway. She got some groceries and some underclothes for herself and a goldfish for Carmen. She and Carmen here for supper. Betty bought me a 4 pound box of candy for Valentines.


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