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, February 19, 2020

January 28 - 31, 1974



Monday, January 28, 1974

Another one of those very nice sunny days. I done my work up, down to Betty’s. We went to Portland to do shopping for Carmen’s birthday. Dorothea went with us. Bill hauled some gravel for Betty’s driveway.



Tuesday, January 29, 1974

Another one of those very nice sunny mild days. I done up my work and went down to Betty’s to help her. We washed, cleaned up her house etc. Wrapped Carmen’s gifts.



Wednesday, January 30, 1974 40s again today

It was cloudy in a.m. but cleared off nice and mild. We went to Windham. Fern went with us. We bought some Italian sandwiches at Amato’s.



Thursday, January 31, 1974 very mild 40s and above

Another one of those very nice sunny days. I done up my regular work, went down to Betty’s. She took Zak to school and took Fern shopping and to do some errands. I went with them.



This is been a wonderful month weatherwise. Some snow first of the month so they did some skiing over on the mountain. For much of this month it has been very mild temperatures and warm rain which took most of the snow off. A lot of bare ground. David R Thomas of Bridgton died on New Year’s Day. He is Dorothea’s husband’s father. We all felt so bad. He was a young person, 58. Also this month Walter bought a brand-new truck, 1974 Chevrolet with snow plow and four-wheel-drive. Also Jeff bought him a new car. His first one. Billie got a raise at where he works. Jeff arrived home from Michigan after a Christmas vacation. Daylight savings time came up again. Zak in hospital one night, kidney infection.
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