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!

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

August 26 - 29, 1973




Sunday, August 26, 1973

A nice day, on the hot side. I was busy all day after I got up. I done work and made preparations for corn roast in p.m. Billie went with Lawrence, Horton family went to the horse show in Harrison. Hortons and Yates here for corn roast.



Monday, August 27, 1973

A very good day, hot. We went to Monmouth Mart and Bradlee’s and Betty finished school shopping for her to Lassies and her one Laddie. They have a lot of nice clothes. She also did her grocery shopping. Came home, got supper. Dorothea and Dave came and got some vegetables and Larry Thomas. Es and Cliff and Chris called in evening.



Tuesday, August 28, 1973

This has been a very nice day. I did a big wash. They dried good. I went down to Betty’s with Bill to see the new clothes. Bill helped Betty today some. Got ready to move the play house. Zak up here today. Carmen went down to Dorothea’s tonight. Dorothea came up to bring Larry home. They will go to Joy’s tomorrow.



Wednesday, August 29, 1973

Kim came up for breakfast. Stayed most of forenoon. Zak came up later. I ironed, did my refrigerator. Carmen came home with her dad tonight. I did my refrigerator.

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