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!

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

October 16 - 19, 1966



Sunday, October 16, 1966 Rain

Didn’t do much. Carmen here all day. Kennie, Dot, Fern and Lloyd called.




Monday, October 17, 1966

We washed. Partly cloudy, clothes dried quite well. Dorothea took some downtown to dry. Betty home kind of early. She worked for Mrs. Hansen. I took care of children. She took Kim to the doctors.



Tuesday, October 18, 1966

A very nice day. I went to Yarmouth with Aunt Ava and Uncle Lewis. Called at Hilda and Einas (?), had a good time. Came home, Dorothea and Betty had a delicious supper. Betty is sick again. Betty heard from Doug Nolan today. Mike went to court and has got to pay her $20 a week for support.



Wednesday, October 19, 1966

Rained hard all day. Dorothea and I down to Betty’s to get the children. Betty and Kimberly both real sick. Came home. Dorothea over to Joys. Carmen went too. I wrote two letters, and did Kim’s wash.

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