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, April 8, 2020

July 25 - 27, 1974


Thursday, July 25, 1974

A very nice day. Betty, Zak, Dorothea and I went to Conway New Hampshire, Chatham New Hampshire and Stowe Maine looking at old graves but didn’t get much information. We called at the antique shop in Bryant Pond. Came home, had supper. Dorothea took me to town shopping and called at Karen’s and Bob and Pat’s.



Friday, July 26, 1974

A partly cloudy day. We, Dorothea, Kim and I called on Frances. She didn’t know anything about the family records. When we came home, had lunch and then went down to Betty’s. She had been at a antique shop over in Lovell and Conway. She got some gifts for Dorothea’s birthday. So when Dorothea got down there Betty had her gifts out and she opened them. She was very pleased with them all. Then we picked beans, greens etc. for her to take home and for our supper. We had a good supper.



Saturday, July 27, 1974

Partly cloudy, on the mild side. I have been very busy all day making preparations for tomorrow. Betty, Walt and Bill looking at a small house or cottage at Sandy Creek. Billie working out back of the barn all day. Kim went home in p.m. Betty and I shopping in late p.m.


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