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, May 2, 2019

February 6 - 9, 1971


Saturday, February 6, 1971

Bill worked today. Plowing snow etc. Billie cleaned up snow in the yard. I baked beans, made rolls etc.



Sunday, February 7, 1971

I done up regular work, took a bath. Fern, Lloyd called a minute. Bill worked most all day. We all went to Betty’s in p.m. for Carmen’s birthday. Delores, Es, Cliff, Susan, Billie, Vince, Chris, Fern, Lloyd, Dorothea, Joy, Jeff, Debbie, Laurie and Kathy. Bill, Billie and me. Missed Aunt Ava.



Monday, February 8, 1971

Snow and cold and some sleeting rain. We didn’t go over to Aunt Ava’s because of the storm. Esther went over to do some things. I cleaned up the house, washed windows, washed floors, ironed etc.



Tuesday, February 9, 1971

A nice day. It was a mild day. We worked at Aunt Ava’s. We got rest of things down from the shed and picked them over. Astronauts landed back today after another successful trip on to the moon.

Cleaning at Aunt Ava's

Zak sitting in Aunt Ava's wash basin


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