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 19, 2018

July 16 - 19, 1966



Saturday, July 16, 1966

Baked beans. Fern up for supper. I had biscuits. It seemed good. Fern stayed into the evening. Billie took her home. I didn’t do too much. Billie downtown.



Sunday, July 17, 1966

A nice day. Picked vegetables out of the garden. We had a Turkey dinner tonight. Kennie and Dot called. Fern and Lloyd called in late p.m. Fern, Lloyd called.



Monday, July 18, 1966

A nice day. I did quite a wash. Betty and children up here today. Downtown in p.m.



Tuesday, July 19, 1966

A nice day, on the quite warm side. Dorothea to Portland to see about getting some work. We had our hair done at Pierce’s Beauty School. Came home, had Italian sandwiches for supper. Betty did all the ironing last night.

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