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, January 3, 2019

November 2 - 5, 1969


Sunday, November 2, 1969

A cloudy day. Didn’t do much. Billie worked for Lawrence. Bill watched TV. Fern and Lloyd called in evening.



Monday, November 3, 1969

A rainy day. Bill didn’t have to work. We went to town. Rode over to Camp Wildwood and over to foot of Woods Pond to see the new piece of road state is building. Came home, called on Betty, Kim and Zak. She gave us a Italian sandwich for lunch. I made a carrot cake.



Thursday, November 4, 1969

A dreary day. It rained some. I washed. Walked down to Betty’s. When I came home Kim came up for a little while. Carmen came up after school to get clothes dryer. Fern came up and had some liver for supper.



Wednesday, November 5, 1969

Another heavy rainy day. Weather bee Don Kent says it is an ocean storm coming in from the sea off the New Jersey coast. It rained very hard last night but very mild temperatures. Kim called on me today.


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