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!

Saturday, December 14, 2019

May 28 -31, 1973 Lucky Gone




Monday, May 28, 1973 RAIN

This is the holiday for Memorial Day. It rained. Betty, Esther, Kim, Zak and me all went to the cemeteries at Bridgton and Waterford. We’ll go up to Stoneham later. Bill took a shower. Bill and Carmen.



Tuesday, May 29, 1973 LUCKY GONE

Today I got a lot of work done. Lucky, the Horton’s pony, went away tonight. A lady over to Oxford bought him. They came after him in a big horse trailer truck.




Wednesday, May 30, 1973

I cleaned the woods work in the kitchen. Also done windows etc. Did a lot of work.




Thursday, May 31, 1973 Stewart Barnaby paid Bill $12

Foggy and drizzly all day. About suppertime it cleared off pretty good. Today Betty and I went up to New Hampshire shopping. Then in p.m. I went down town. I finished my kitchen room floor today, got all the old wax up and washed it and Bill went over at with Mop and Glo and it looks very nice.
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