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, August 7, 2018

April 30 - May 2, 1968 Carmen Broke Her Arm


Tuesday, April 30, 1968 Carmen Broke Her Arm

Another nice day. I worked on the cupboards today. I brought up all the dishes from down cellar. I got them all washed and put away. The cupboards look very pretty. This afternoon I got a call from Betty. Carmen fell off her bike and broker left arm. Also lost a tooth. She was taken to hospital emergency ward and had it set and put into a cast.




Wednesday, May 1, 1968

A nice sunny day. I cleaned the rest of the kitchen draws, cupboards and all. I also did the last coat of varnish. Bill painted the porch floor tonight, harrowed the garden, spread the lime. Billie did some more fencing. I put the screens on the kitchen. Stanford’s heifer got out. Barbara, Christie and I got her in. I called in and saw the kitchen at Stanford’s, it looks nice. I talked with Betty and Carmen. Carmen’s arm is coming better



Thursday, May 2, 1968

It has been some cloudy today but clear in p.m. It has been on the cold, raw side. I washed. Settled my closets and cleaned out and picked over things in the bureaus. Minnie and Patty called. I cleaned all the silver. Tonight Bill and Billie laid a strip of rug on the breezeway over the part coming in from the garage. The house looks so very nice.


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