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, May 15, 2021

August 22 - 24, 1978 Zak to have surgery

 

Tuesday, August 22, 1978

 

Another sunny dry day. It is nice to have the sun but we are so in need of rain. This is the worst drought we have had for many years. Lawns are all brown and crisp also fields and pastures are all going by. I was down to Betty’s, we did her beans. Betty went to the Dr. in Lewiston with Zak, he has got to have operation first of next week. Fern went with her. Kim down to Debbie Woodbury’s. Bill worked on the wood.

 

 

 

Wednesday, August 23, 1978

 

A quite nice day, some haze and light clouds. Still very dry. This morning Carmen and Laurie came for breakfast. I did a wash. I defrosted the refrigerator. Bill worked on the wood. Girls worked at the shelter. Billie home at noon from work. Carmen, Zenya, Laurie and Billie Deming all to the Civic Center at Portland to a music concert by the (blank) group. They had a good time.

 

 

 

Thursday, August 24, 1978 RAIN

 

Today we got rain, not enough, but it helped what we did get. I didn’t do too much. I went to Lewiston with Betty to take Zak over for x-rays at the CMMC hospital. He goes Monday for a minor operation. That is he is admitted on Monday. Then Tuesday he is operated on. If all is okay he comes home Wednesday. Today Carmen and a group of her friends when out on the Songo River Queen for a party given by a friend of hers. They had a good time. Donny didn’t make it.

 

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