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!

Thursday, May 27, 2021

October 4 -7, 1978 Bill has bowel exam

Wednesday, October 4, 1978

 

Fair today. Leaves are pretty. Milan and Betty over to Fryeburg to Sadie’s for the day. She saw her brother and his wife. Bill on the hungry side.

 

 

 

Thursday, October 5, 1978 BILL TO PORTLAND

 

A cloudy day. It cleared up some in PM. Betty Crook and I went and got some things for Betty’s birthday. Came home, got ready and went to Portland. Bill, Betty S and me. Dorothea came up and got us. Bill went for a bowel examination, very thorough. Dr. removed a pollock (She means polyp) from the bowels. We didn’t get home till 9:30. While Bill was having that done Betty, Dorothea and I went touring over the city places where Betty worked and lived. Milan took Delores to town. Milan and Betty over to see Lloyd and went to see Kippoy and Sue but they want at home.

 

 

 

Friday, October 6, 1978 Betty Cox Smith 59 today

 

We had quite a nice rain. Betty, Joy and kids all went to the fair. They had a good time, it didn’t rain hard all day. In PM we had a birthday for Betty. All family.

 

 

 

Saturday, October 7, 1978

 

A quite nice day, some cloudiness. Done work, made bread and cake. Betty and I walked up to the shelter, Dawn’s and Delores’s. Came home, got supper. It got quite cold. Milan and Billie hauled the picnic table, swing etc. down and put into the shed for winter.

 

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