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!

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

May 22- 25, 1967


Monday, May 22, 1967 Cemented cellar

Kind of cloudy. It warmed up in PM. Mr. Baker came and cemented the cellar. Lloyd came up and took me to town in p.m. I washed clothes. Didn’t dry too good. Had some dandelions greens for supper.


Tuesday, May 23, 1967

Some sun today. I picked and froze some greens today. Fern came up. Also Sal and her mother came and got some greens. I done my ironing tonight after supper.



Wednesday, May 24, 1967

A sunny day. I worked up in the shed chamber doing some packing. Bill bought a pickup truck tonight, a 1950 Chevrolet pickup. Bought it of Jake Knights. Cold in late p.m. and evening.



Thursday, May 25, 1967

Cloudy today. Late in p.m. the wind blowed so awful hard. I cleaned out the China closet and packed the dishes. In a.m. Carmen and I went with Fern and Lloyd to North Windham. Called at Dorothea’s. Carmen so glad to see Kim. I got my hair set and a rinse put on over to June’s tonight.



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