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, May 13, 2019

March 21 - 24, 1971


Sunday, March 21, 1971

A nice day. I got up early, got the turkey to cooking. Made preparations for the supper. I went down to Betty’s at about one. We got the dinner going. We had a nice Turkey dinner for Billie’s birthday. He got $81 in money. In late p.m. we had ice cream, cake. Had Deming’s and Sue and kids. Fern, Lloyd.



Monday, March 22, 1971 $10, Billie 40 today

Clear and windy. I did some wash. Down to Betty’s, came home about noon. Susan paid for the rest of her furniture today. Bill and Billie’s income checks came today. Kim has cold.



Tuesday, March 23, 1971

Clear in a.m. I washed sheets, pillow cases etc. Got them in and ironed. I went down to Betty’s, she finished up her shed chamber. I washed kitchen floor. Kim up here.



Wednesday, March 24, 1971

Kind of cloudy and windy cold. I did a dite of washing. Went down to Betty’s. We went to Norway. Got another letter from Mr. Applegate.


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