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!

Saturday, March 27, 2021

February 14 - 17, 1978 Betty's birthday

Tuesday, February 14, 1978

 

Partly cloudy. I done up my regular work. Fern up all day. She enjoyed being here. She looked at all of Betty’s albums. We both enjoyed seeing them. I cooked a chicken dinner which she enjoyed. I made a lemon meringue pie, made rolls. Billie and Lawrence went fishing down to Bowdoinham, got a lot of smelts. Bill fishing with Ilan.

 

 

 

Wednesday, February 15, 1978

 

It has been a cloudy day. Bill went fishing. I started a new puzzle. I’ve been busy all day. Doing odds and end jobs. We have had a cloudy week.

 

 

 

Thursday, February 16, 1978 Billie off for a few days, Kim came home, asthma trouble

 

A partly cloudy day. I done up my work. Went down to Betty’s. We went to town and Delores went with us. We done Fern’s shopping. Today Billie came home from work. The crew was laid off until Joe gets his financial part of his business into a sound base. He went to Norway to get grain. He called to see Lloyd. Lloyd is just the same. Betty went down to school to get Kim. She had a breathing difficulty. I done a good wash in PM.

 

 

 

Friday, February 17, 1978 Hair Set, Betty 35 years, a school weeks vacation

 

Mostly cloudy all day. A few squirts of snow in a.m., some sunshine in PM. I done regular work. I washed and did some ironing. In PM I went to Barbara’s and got my hair set. Bill and Ilan went fishing in PM and Billie and Lawrence gone fishing in Bowdoinham. Today Betty is 35 years old. She went to coffee group meeting today. Dawn down to her house while she was gone. Today Betty and Walt out on the town to supper etc. to celebrate her birthday. Carmen and Kim gone to school dances. President is in Bangor Maine tonight staying at the home of Mr. and Mrs. (blank).

 

 

 

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