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, June 27, 2019

September 11 - 14, 1971 Picnic in the Garage


Saturday, September 11, 1971

Fair today. Kind of on the hazy side. I got plans made for tomorrow. Cooked a turkey. Called at Ferns today.



Sunday, September 12, 1971

It began to rain in the night. Rained hard all day. We had the planned picnic here in the garage. Thomases, Yates, Hortons, Crooks and Pa.

Picnic in the Garage at Nanny's




Then down to the Farm to celebrate Zak's second birthday








A long day


Monday, September 13, 1971

Bill didn’t work today. He and I drove around looking at new houses and over Knights Hill development. Bill worked today at McSherry’s Orchards.



Tuesday, September 14, 1971

A miserable day, rained hard all day. I done my work up. Billie and I went down to Cornish for butter. I came home, made a turkey pie. Fern had a lot of pretty house dresses given her today. We called at Ferns. She don’t look too good.




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