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, January 18, 2019

December 26 - 29, 1969


Friday, December 26, 1969 A BAD STORM $6.00 Joe Hatch

It began snowing this morning early. It snowed and blowed hard all day. Late at night it rained sleet and hail. After breakfast Billie and I went to town. Got groceries, paid some bills. Came home, Billie took his car to the garage. We took Christmas tree out and got all cleaned up from Christmas for this year. We got about 16 to 18 inches of snow.



Saturday, December 27, 1969 Mild Temperatures

A very bad bad day. It rained so awful hard all day. The roads were glazed with ice. Bill came home at noon and slept till five. Called out for an hour after supper. Billie and I called at Betty and Walt’s for a little while. The temperatures are mild but the weather is awful. I did regular work, washed a few things. Billie up to Chet’s, called at Ferns. Bill worked all night last night, came home at 5 AM and back to work at 7 to 12 he worked.



Sunday, December 28, 1969 washed

Today we saw sun after two days of very bad storm. Bill worked today all day and an hour after supper. Billie, Fern, Lloyd and I went down to Goshen Mountain for butter. Betty and family came up today. It seemed good to have them near enough to come up for a visit. The roads are in bad shape from the awful heavy rains for the past 48 hours. I washed today. Clothes dried good.



Monday, December 29, 1969

A kind of cold windy day. Betty to an eye doctor for her eye. They are bad or one is. It is painful. We went to Portland. I stayed at Dorothea’s with Zak and Kim. Dorothea is all a dither today. We didn’t get home until after 5 PM.


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