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!

Sunday, April 14, 2019

November 29 - December 2, 1970


Sunday, November 29, 1970

A nice sunny day, but it clouded up. Bill helped Walt. Billie gone with Lawrence. I went down to Betty’s, we went down and picked out the trees for Christmas. Bill and I called to see Chris Rager at Esther’s.



Monday, November 30, 1970

A partly cloudy day, in a.m., cleared in p.m. Betty, Zak, Cliff and I went to Portland. Betty did a bit of shopping. Cliff bought funnel for his garage stove.



Tuesday, December 1, 1970

I washed today, clothes dried very good. Down to Betty’s.



Wednesday, December 2, 1970

I went down while Betty took Kim to school. Es came back with Betty. We got her kitchen all cleaned and she got rest of her housework, sweeping and dusting done. Kim came home with me, she was sick in late p.m.


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