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!

Monday, August 24, 2020

December 11 - 13, 1975

Thursday, December 11, 1975

 

A beautiful day, on the cool side. I made out Christmas cards in a.m., in p.m. went to North Conway with Betty and Phyllis shopping. Came home, got supper. Watched TV in evening. It is very clear, pretty outside tonight. Nice moon.

 

 

 

Friday, December 12, 1975 Sent Christmas cards

 

Nice and sunny in early a.m., it clouded up. I washed, went to town. Went down to Betty’s a minute. Dawn up to Betty’s. I did some Christmas wrapping. Walt called saying Bill would have to go down to Casco Bank to sign papers to settle up the Jean Weymouth White property and get his money, but Walt came home and the bank said one paper wasn’t ready so we would have to wait till Monday at 3 PM. Carmen up here tonight. She went to 4-H club meeting over to Becky Knight’s in Bolsters Mills. Stayed here all night. I made a date filled pie, it was very good.

 

 

 

Saturday, December 13, 1975

 

I got up about 8:30 this morning. Carmen had to get up and go home. I done up my regular work. Kim came up. I ironed. David called and made a nice long visit. Kimmy made some cookies. I washed floors etc. Phyllis left today to go back home. She fixed Delores’s house up so it looks very nice.

 

 

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