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!

Monday, November 26, 2018

June 8 - 11, 1969


Sunday, June 8, 1969

A beautiful day. We didn’t get up too early. We did up the work. I made a couple of pies. Betty made some Italian sandwiches for supper. We ate outside. Dawn and Ed called late afternoon to see Betty and Walt. Fern and Lloyd called in a.m. Billie went with Lawrence.



Monday, June 9, 1969

We washed, cleaned up the house. Went to town.



Tuesday, June 10, 1969

A very nice day. I worked at Mrs. Dearborn’s. Cleaned her porch and started her upstairs. Came home, made a meat hash for supper tomorrow night. Also we had sausage and pancakes tonight.



Wednesday, June 11, 1969 Hot

Betty, Kim and I out looking for a place to live. We went to Durham, Raymond, Falmouth, Cumberland, Gorham and Groveville. Dorothea was glad to see us, we called on her. She went some places with us. A very nice day. Hot.


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