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, January 5, 2020

August 15 - 18, 1973


Wednesday, August 15, 1973

Rainy. We went to Portland today shopping for school clothes. Betty had quite good luck. It has rained. Dorothea went with us.



Thursday, August 16, 1973

Kind of cloudy. Esther over early in a.m. She went down to Betty’s to see the new clothes we got yesterday for kids. She stayed all day. Bill, Kim and I went to Westbrook and took some vegetables down to Dorothea. Bill mowed lawns in p.m. Billie mowed tonight.



Friday, August 17, 1973

Today I worked at Betty’s. She mowed lawns. We moved the chest down into her shed chamber where it is dry. Bill took me to town at noon. Betty to town before supper.



Saturday, August 18, 1973

Kind of cloudy when we got up but it cleared and was hot. I made beans, rolls and a pie and tarts. Lloyd called and Robert. We moved the rug back down cellar and settled it. Billie picked garden things. Billie finished mowing lawns etc.



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