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, November 9, 2020

September 10 -12, 1976 Zak's 7th Birthday Party

Friday, September 10, 1976 Cloudy and dreary

 

Bill worked at Betty’s fixing the sawdust pen. I went down to Betty’s early and got Zak off to school. Kim got herself ready. Then I done up her work. Came home, did my work. Made a pie, ironed, went to town shopping. In p.m. Billie and I over to Esther’s a little while. Kim up after school and to stay all night. Betty, Dawn and Mary Berry left early this morning to take a load of furniture up to Linda Berry’s up in Laconia, New Hampshire.

 

 

 

Saturday, September 11, 1976 a nice day

 

Kimmy here all day. Zak up some. Billie busy all day. I done up my regular work, washed floor, cooked a dite. Betty went away in p.m., down to get Carmen. She called on the way back. We wrapped Zak’s toys for his birthday. Billie went to Dave’s and they got Bill’s insulation.

 

 

 

Sunday, September 12, 1976 a beautiful day, Zak 7th birthday party

 

It was a beautiful day. I did my washing. Got ready, went down to Betty’s about noon to help Zak celebrates his 7th birthday party. He will be 7 on September 15. He enjoyed it all very much, had a lot of nice gifts. Demings, Ragers, Thomases, Crooks, Dawn Babbitt and the Horton family and the Yates. Bill and Billie put the insulation in the barn.

 






Lloyd, Bill and David

Daddy, Susan and Dawn

Billie, Carmen and Lloyd

Smith gals - Esther, Fern and Althea

Nanny, Kim and Dorothea


Cake made by Auntie D

 

 

 

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