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, May 17, 2019

April 7 - 10, 1971


Wednesday, April 7, 1971 Snow

Snowing and blowing this morning. A miserable day. They did some plowing. I didn’t go down to Betty’s this morning.



Thursday, April 8, 1971

I wrote some letters. Done regular work. Cleaned some closets. Finished looking over papers for my scraps. Cliff and Billie to Scouts. Esther and I called on Fern in evening.



Friday, April 9, 1971

A pretty nice day. I done regular work, down to Betty’s while she took Kim to school. Came home. Bill home sick with a bad cold. Dorothea came about noon. We got ready, went to George’s funeral. Billie took care of kids. Walt studying, getting ready for his test next Friday. We went to Weldon’s after funeral. Thena pretty good.



Saturday, April 10, 1971

A nice day. I went to town shopping with Betty and kids. Carmen went to the dentist. I baked beans and made rolls. Cliff and Scouts out hiking today.


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