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!

Monday, February 26, 2018

August 13 - 16, 1966



Saturday, August 13, 1966

A nice day. We picked our small cukes for pickles. Billie took them up to Lil’s. She made us some sour pickles. Billie worked at Raymond in a.m. Betty over to Gardiner with Mrs. Hansen to get her son at the YMCA camp. I had the children. Some people came to see the trailer. A nice day. Fern up for supper.



Sunday, August 14, 1966 HOUSE is going

Beautiful day. Jeff down to camp with Dorothea. I got up late. Bill worked in the garden harrowing. Lloyd up. He stayed a long while and talked. Betty brought up the kids, she went back and cleaned her apartment. Bill and I up to trailer. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dunn came to see the house. They say they want to buy it. Kennie and Dot up.



Monday, August 15, 1966

Kind of hazy in a.m. but my clothes dried. Clouded up in PM. Betty worked on her boxes upstairs. Randy Harmon here. Betty gave Jeff a lot of junk, he was so pleased. Mrs. Dunn and children here to see the house. Tonie not at all good, end is near.




Tuesday, August 16, 1966

Cleaned up the house, did my ironing. Betty and kids up. Kind of cloudy most all day. Dorothea didn’t come up today from camp. Billie late coming home from work. Had his car fixed.

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