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, January 7, 2018

January 25- 28, 1966



Tuesday, January 25, 1966 Cold



A nice day, got my clothes in and ironed. Did a dite of cooking, talked with folks. Betty and Carmen several times. Bill quite lame tonight. Betty got a call from Mike tonight, he is coming over and he did, he brought her $20. He can’t stay very long. He wasn’t feeling very good, cold and headache.




Wednesday, January 26, 1966 a nice sunny day.

I done up my work, to town with Fern and Lloyd. To Betty’s. She got the car. They came up for afternoon and supper. We discussed Michael and his problems. Bill feeling quite well tonight. Billie and I called at Aunt Ava’s and Uncle Lewis’s in evening.



Thursday, January 27, 1966

Partly cloudy, some sun, snow flurries. 12 above. I done up my work, made bread. Picked my desk contents over. Got it ready to go to Betty’s. Fern and Lloyd called. In p.m. Dawn, Betty and Carmen called. Kennard called in p.m. also. Billie and I called on Kennard, Betty and Carmen, Lil and Fern in evening.



Friday, January 28, 1966

Very cold, windy. Bill up and his legs much better. They got off to work early. I got my work done up early. Washed my kitchen windows, cleaned up the kitchen. Today the wind blowed gale force. Very cold and snow blowing.

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