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 22, 2021

September 16 -18, 1978 Zak's 9th Birthday Party

 

Saturday, September 16, 1978 HOTTER

 

It has been on the hot and humid side today. I have been very busy all day. Zak went home about 2 PM. It was much cooler tonight. Billie went with Lawrence in PM. Bill watched ballgame. Zak watched his programs all morning. Billie harrowed the gardens this forenoon.

 

 

 

Sunday, September 17, 1978 Zak’s birthday

 

I done my work. Then we got ready and went down to Betty’s for Zak’s birthday. He had a lot of nice gifts and was very pleased. Dorothea had a beautiful cake as usual. This year Joy’s folks were here.

 
















All partied out!

 

 

 

 

Monday, September 18, 1978 ZAK schoolwork very good, RED was bred today, Kimmy sick

 

We are having some really nice sunny days. But we need rain so awful bad. I done my regular work. I washed, got other jobs, the refrigerator defrosted etc then we got ready and went down to Dorothea’s. Billie went to get his pants, but they didn’t have them. They had the wrong ones. Kimmy didn’t go to school today. After supper Betty took her to the hospital. She is quite sick with pneumonia. They didn’t keep her in the hospital. Tonight Zak brought up his school papers, they were 100 A+ very good. We are so pleased. Hope he will do well for the whole year.

 

 

 

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