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!

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

July 23 - 26,1970


Thursday, July 23, 1970 HOT HOT HOT

Very hot day. Real cool morning when we got up. During day got very hot. Betty, Esther, Susan and I down to Susan’s apartment and cleaned it. Got a few things moved in. Es, Sue and Vince up to the house for supper. Went down to see Susan’s apartment after supper. Billie, Es and I, Sue, Vince and Betty, Walt and kids. Stanley came home from hospital after six weeks stay at NCMH.



Friday, July 24, 1970

Another hot day. I done up my work. Down to Betty’s to stay with kids while she, Susan and Esther went to town shopping.



Saturday, July 25, 1970 Another awful hot one

Didn’t do too much. I baked beans. Had cukes some our garden. Billie and Billie worked in garden. Bill and I called at Jean’s to see Stan. He is coming okay. Stopped at Lawrence’s, got frankfurts. Es and Cliff helping Susan.



Sunday, July 26, 1970

Didn’t do too much, relaxed. Called at George and Thena’s with Cliff and Horton’s.

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