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, August 22, 2018

June 19 - 22, 1968


Wednesday, June 19, 1968

Cleared in a.m. and I did the washing. I cleaned up the house, washed windows etc. Busy all day. It was a pretty good day. Warm. Fog and dampness cleared away in the morning. Showers, clouds passed over during afternoon and in early evening we got heavy rain showers. I talked with Betty. She said she didn’t plan to come down this weekend.



Thursday, June 20, 1968

I did another wash. The clothes dried pretty good during the rain showers. Mild. When Billie went to the pig pen the largest and best pig was sick. Hope he Will be all right. Joy and kids called also Fern and Lloyd.



Friday, June 21, 1968

It is clear and windy, not very warm. I did another wash, blankets and bedspreads off our beds. Joy brought the girls over, Debbie, Kathy stayed here while she went to town. I did some ironing etc. In evening bill and I to town, got groceries. Then we drove over to Waterford and got his hair cut. He and Billie gave the pig some penicillin.




Saturday, June 22, 1968

Billie and Lloyd went to Oxford to Twitchell’s, took the Rototiller over to give fixed. Lawrence came up, gave the pig another shot. Pig was better in early a.m., later it wasn’t so good. Billie went with Lawrence in p.m. Fern up for supper. Bill and I called at Gordon’s in p.m.

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