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, June 28, 2019

September 15 - 18, 1971


Zak turns 2 on the 15th



Wednesday, September 15, 1971

It cleared off and came off very hot and humid. Bill and Billie to work. I did my washing and dried some of it at Betty’s. Bill worked for Gordon today. We got over 4 inches of rain in this past storm.



Thursday, September 16, 1971

A nice day, on the very hot side. Bill and Billie late getting home from work. I went down to Betty’s early and got Carmen off to school then brought Kim and Zak up here. Did my washing, ironing and cooked. Betty to Portland, got her bread and donuts.



Friday, September 17, 1971

On the cloudy side. I’ve been down to Betty’s, she mowed lawns. Blanche been gone seven years today. To town in p.m. with Betty. We had thundershowers last night.



Saturday, September 18, 1971

Cloudy in a.m. I made rolls, baked beans. In p.m. bill and I went to Waterford. We sold the guns to Merrill. Bill down to the cottage to paint, it was too wet. It cleared in p.m. Esther and I went to the Oxford Plains Speedway races, very good.

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