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!

Sunday, June 30, 2019

September 23 - 27, 1971


Thursday, September 23, 1971

Kind of cloudy today, some sun. I done up my work, down to Betty’s. We went to town shopping. Esther went with us. We went down to the cottage where Bill is working. I bought some things of Avon dealer Mrs. Alice Leavitt.



Friday, September 24, 1971

(Blank)



Saturday, September 25, 1971

A nice day. Bill worked at Helen Jones’s cottage painting. I done up my work. Went down to Betty’s for a little while. Carmen came up and stayed all night.



Sunday, September 26, 1971

A pretty good day. Bill painted at the cottage. Billie up to Chet’s and sawed wood. I washed my living room floor. Carmen here all day.



Monday, September 27, 1971 Tom left

Bill began work for Gordon building a house down to the Lake. I went down to Betty’s early. We went to town to get her paint for the kitchen floor. She painted the floor in the kitchen and around ends of dining room floor. Got a new rug for dining room. They came up here for supper. I washed today, made a pie etc. Tom left Susan and his children today for good.

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