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, April 5, 2020

July 13 - 16, 1974


Saturday, July 13, 1974

This is been a beautiful day, on the hot side. I baked beans, done a dite of cooking. Billie and Walt over to Twitchell’s to look at tractors and equipment. In p.m. Billie went up to Chet’s to mow hay for Lawrence. I went down to Betty’s to stay with Zak while they went to Hiram to an auction. Carmen and Zenya swimming.



Sunday, July 14, 1974 HOT HOT

Today I got my work done up, did a dite of washing. Billie went up to Chet’s and mowed. In p.m. he got his hay all in. Walt and his truck. Bill also, and George Drisko helped too. He got about 325 bales of good hay in the new barn. In p.m. we went over to Weldon and Lida’s new place, formerly Aunt Ava and Uncle Lewis’ home. They had opened house. It is a beautiful home, everyone liked it very much. They had a lot of relatives and neighbors in to see it.



Monday, July 15, 1974  KITTEN, VERY HOT

Today Betty, Zak and I went to Scarbrough to Kmart, done some shopping for Walt’s birthday. Dropped in to Portland for a little while. Betty got a new kitten. We ran into a bad shower at Raymond.



Tuesday, July 16, 1974

Kind of a partly cloudy day but not too hot. Today I went to Denmark, Naples with Betty in a.m. In p.m. went to town and South Harrison. For work here, I washed, gave the bathroom a cleaning, picked peas and ironed. Betty here, also the kids. Kimberly had a little girl playing with her today, Tricia Barton. She had a good time. Carmen and Zenya went swimming. Tonight Esther and Cliff arrived home from Ohio. They had a wonderful time, a nice trip.
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