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!

Friday, May 4, 2018

May 6 - 9, 1967


Saturday, May 6, 1967

A very nice day, sunny. I done up my work. Gave Carmen a bath and was going to take mine. But the Stanfords called.The Thomas family up for supper.



Sunday, May 7, 1967

A very cold day, gray, bleak and a East wind. The sun was shining when we got up. Soon clouded in. We all went up to the new house. Bill put the footing in for the cellar way. Fern, Lloyd called. Kennard, Delores called. Betty to town.



Monday, May 8, 1967 Snow

Snow this morning, what a mess. Rain and snow. Betty and Carmen took the clothes to laundry. I did a little hand washing. I did a dite of cooking. Kim a bit fussy. Velma Staley operated on today.



Tuesday, May 9, 1967

Up early this morning into Portland. We stopped at Dorothea’s, she went with us. No permanent back injuries the Dr. whom Betty went to, told her from the accident. We went to Bradlee’s. We came home, got supper. Then started for Lewiston. Rained most all the way to Lewiston, that is. Called on the Thomas family.

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