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, February 18, 2018

July 12 - 15, 1966 Nanny, Dorothea and Jeff Arrive Home From MI



Tuesday, July 12, 1966 HOME

It was a nice day. We got up to Canada last night, quite a lot of Canada before dark. We rode and rode all night long. We got lost in every town we went into. Finally we got righted around and got out to Niagara Falls. Then got out of there and to the New York thruway. We drove all day and off that New York Thruway at 7:30 AM. Went over the Mass Turnpike and over through 128 Mass Hwy. Got home at about 7 PM. My penny gave me good luck. All was glad to see us all safe and sound.



Wednesday, July 13, 1966

A nice day, not too hot. Bill, Betty and Dorothea sat the pool up. Billie and I picked peas and strawberries. Barbara and children called. Betty and children stayed up tonight. Billie giving us all a hard time. He is in need of help. Bill hauled some water for the pool. Kennie and Dot called.

Nanny, Kim, Jeff and Carmen






Thursday, July 14, 1966

A nice cool day. Didn’t get up till seven. Done up the work. Dorothea, Betty, Carmen and Jeff went to Portland Zayres to get a filter for the pool. Also some other pool things. Billie up at noon and off. Betty and children home tonight. Dorothea and Jeff down to Barbara’s tonight. I washed. Froze a few jars of strawberries. Kennard called. Lloyd called.



Friday, July 15, 1966

A nice day, went to town. Did a dite of shopping. I didn’t do too much. Today Mama would have been 86 today. Went to town shopping. Worked up to the trailer.



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