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, February 25, 2019

May 27 - 29, 1970


Wednesday, May 27, 1970

Cloudy. It seemed good to be home this morning. Betty and Walt came at about 11 last night. I done a lot of work today, cleaned the house up, cellar and washed windows. Kids up here. Betty mowed her lawn. Billie cleaned up the work bench, sorted out nails, screws, bolts etc. Put them into the little chest of draws which is for them. I cleaned the cars inside.



Thursday, May 28, 1970


Cloudy. I cleaned up the whole house today. We cleaned the garage, windows. Billie worked in the garage picking up and cleaning it up. Betty got a call from Walt’s sister Sandra, she is having a hard time with her father. Wants Walt to come down. They all went down. Left Kim and Zak at Dorothea’s, Carmen here. Billie and I called at Aunt Ava’s. Billie cleaned his car today.



Friday, May 29, 1970 Carmen down to Animal Farm at Gray with Brownies

A beautiful day. We got up early, Bill to work. About 7 AM Milan and Betty came. We had breakfast. I did some washing. We got ready and went over and got Aunt Ava and went up to the cemeteries at Waterford, East Stoneham and back to Bridgton. We also went over home and it is called now Evergreen Valley. They are beginning to work on the $40,000,000 project. In p.m. Milan, Betty, Billie and I down to Cornish, got butter. A beautiful ride, they enjoyed it very much.






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