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, October 13, 2019

October 15 -18, 1972


Sunday, October 15, 1972 Snow Flurries

A partly cloudy day. Cold and windy. I done regular work. Billie did chores at Dave Thomas’s this weekend. He took up the dahlia bulbs etc. Also he and Bill took the tops off Lloyd’s and our back porch. Bill watched the ballgame on TV.



Monday, October 16, 1972 Bill worked at cottage

A beautiful day, cold and clear, windy. Betty and I to Conway, New Hampshire, did some grocery shopping. In p.m. after I got home I washed rest of the washing, cooked etc. Esther called in evening.



Tuesday, October 17, 1972 Herman Brackett died, still windy cold, Bill painted windows at Walt’s

A nice day but cold and windy. I got my work done up, down to Betty’s. I washed storm windows and house windows inside and out. Walt put them on after he got home tonight. I came home and did my ironing.





Wednesday, October 18, 1972 Bill worked all day at Helen Jones

Another nice day. Very cold. I washed all my windows on the outside. Betty and I to Norway in p.m. I talked with Dorothea.



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