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!

Thursday, November 15, 2018

April 25 - 28, 1969 Hortons Move To Bridgton (to Nanny's Basement!)


Friday, April 25, 1969 Finished My Cleaning

Some sun today. I finished my cleaning today. I washed. Lloyd called. Carmen to school again today. Bill outside painting. Walt and Betty got here about 4 PM with all their household goods. We had a ham supper. They were quite tired. I didn’t work for Dorothy today.

Betty and Walt moved. Today Betty and Walt moved to Maine from New Hampshire. They got here about 4 PM. Walt came first, Betty came with the car about 4:30.



Saturday, April 26, 1969

Betty and Walt still settling and unpacking. I done up the regular work, did a dite of cooking. Betty, kids and I to town in p.m. Fern up for supper.



Sunday, April 27, 1969

Very nice mild day. Betty and Walt did some more settling. And a very big wash, clothes dried good. Bill painted. Billie did his fencing. Fern, Lloyd called in evening.



Monday, April 28, 1969

A nice day, on the cool side and in p.m. very warm. We did some more washing and ironing. Betty did a big ironing. Walt went to work today on his new job in Portland. Bill back to work after a week of vacation
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