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!

Wednesday, June 12, 2019

July 17 - 19, 1971 Black Top Driveway


Saturday, July 17, 1971 Black Top driveway

A very nice hot day. Mr. Nelson and crew came and put in our new black top driveway. We like it very much. I did regular work, made some rolls. In early evening we had some bad thundershowers, a lot of rain.



Sunday, July 18, 1971 Dorothea took will will Jeff to his Boy Scout camp

A nice day. I done up regular work, got ready, went to town with Betty. Came home, got things together, went down to Betty’s for a cookout for Walt’s birthday. Had a good time. Ragers, Deming, Yates, Crooks, Thomases and Hortons. Walt got a lot of gifts. Billie picked peas. Carmen and Kim went down to Dorothea’s till Tuesday. We like the new driveway.







Monday, July 19, 1971

A partly cloudy day. It clouded up in late p.m. and it rained hard rest of early evening and late tonight. We got over an inch. I went to North Windham with Betty, came home, shelled beans, got supper. Went over to Bob’s and Pats for Pat’s birthday. I went with Betty. Walt came home sick. Billie worked for Lawrence.




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