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!

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

September 29 - October 1, 1974


Sunday, September 29, 1974 showers

Not a very good day, mostly cloudy and very mild. I done regular work. Bill worked on the flag pole. Billie and Zak hauled sawdust. Later in the day Dorothea and David called at Betty’s. They both seem kind of glum. Bill and Billie took the tops off ours and Lloyd’s back porch.



Monday, September 30, 1974

Mostly sunny, very windy. I washed, did a dite of cooking. Then down to Betty’s. In p.m. she and I went shopping. Carmen back to doctors. She is much better and could go to school tomorrow. Betty got the dog back from Crystal and Steve Morgan and Bonnie and Jim came and got her. Bill got the new flagpole up. He and Betty raised the new flag Betty and Walt gave me for my birthday. It came from our Congressman Peter N. Kyros. It was flown over the capital at Washington on my birthday, August 8, which this day was a historical day because it being the day Pres. Richard Newhouse Nixon resigned from office.



Tuesday, October 1, 1974 2nd frost, Carmen back-to-school

I done up my work. Had quite a few things planned. Instead went to Portland with Betty in p.m. Linda Berry went too. Betty got the kids some new coat. We didn’t stop at Dorothea’s. Bill began on the septic tank of Walt. They began digging at Ilan’s the septic tank and cellar foundation.


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