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, March 11, 2020

April 17 - 20, 1974


Wednesday, April 17, 1974

Cold and windy. I worked at Betty’s. Carmen came up tonight after supper to stay all night. She had company. Zenya.



Thursday, April 18, 1974

A pretty good day. Down to Betty’s. We worked on the kitchen cupboards. She had an appointment at the dentist. Bill did some odds and end jobs down to Betty’s. Carmen had company. Kim Musgrave. Kim Horton came home tonight. She had such a good time at Dorothea’s, they went up to Joy’s yesterday.



Friday, April 19, 1974

A pretty good day, on the cool side. We finished kitchen cupboards and did the china cupboards in the dining room. I was down there all day. In evening she and Walt came up. Kimmy up here all night. Bill Melbye’s cottage (the former Gleason cottage also Seavers was owner of it at one time) burned flat tonight. Esther went to Joy’s today for a few days. Fern and Lloyd went with them.



Saturday, April 20, 1974

Partly cloudy. Some sun. Very cold this morning. It got warmed up a little during the day. I got up early, got my work done and went down to Betty’s for the day. She and Walt and Carmen all went down to Dawn and Ed’s for the day to help them on the barn. I washed and did lot down there today. Kimmy was up here most of the day. Billie went with Lawrence to get some cattle. He got kicked by a steer and his knee is swollen, quite bad. Today Dexter came to see about digging for the foundation of the new barn.

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