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 11, 2018

June 14 - 17, 1966 Nanny Travels To Dorothea's in Michagin



Tuesday, June 14, 1966

Cloudy when we got up. It cleared off nice, on the cool side. Es and I went to Wadsworth and she did some grocery shopping. Came home, sat around all day. Cliff home early. In p.m. Mrs. Smith and her daughter Dana called. Tom up in evening. Es and I went after him. Cliff set up the badminton set, mowed lawns. Susan up to Penny’s after supper.

Susan, age 16, 11th grade. Wearing Tom's ring



Wednesday, June 15, 1966

A beautiful morning. I got up early, took a bath, came down, had breakfast. Helped Es do up the work. Got ready and left for Dorothea’s at about 9:30. We made about three stops, it was a very pretty ride as we neared northern Ohio and Michigan. It was very flat land, farms and farms, corn and vegetables and beef and dairy farms. Lime and steel  mills. We got here at about 2:30 our time. Dorothea got home and was so pleased to see us. She was called to the hospital because of a serious condition of Mr. Adair. She wasn’t here much, had a lot of callers. Rained hard all night.



Thursday, June 16, 1966

A very nice day. Es and family left about 9 AM. Dorothea and Effie up and off to work early. No school today. Jeff and I walked down to Diane’s house. She came up here and played with him. A very hot day. Jeff out catching pollywog’s. Dorothea, Jeff and I out to a McDonald’s hamburger for a hamburger lunch. Went to the store, called at Edna’s.



Friday, June 17, 1966

Very nice day. Hot. Dorothea home early. We had a light lunch. Went to the store. Then got ready, went to the hospital to see Dennis’s father. Edna took us over. I met all the Adair family. Dennis was glad to see Jeff or pretended to. Came home, went into Edna’s for a little while. Came home. Loretta and her boyfriend was here. Effie and David went out. I put my beans to soak. Jeff finished school. He goes to the third grade.


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