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!

Sunday, June 20, 2021

January 1 - 4, 1979

 


Monday, January 1, 1979 New Year’s Day

 

A new year again. A cloudy day and foggy. Kim here all day. We watched the parades on TV. We worked on the puzzle. Kimmy got awful tired.

 

 

 

Tuesday, January 2, 1979 STOVE, School began for the long winter months

 

Cloudy, rainy and foggy. Bill went down to Betty’s. She told him Walt wants to get a stove for himself. We, Betty, Bill and I went to the New Hampshire stove shop got a brand-new Rite Way Stove for the cellar. Joy called in PM. School began today.

 

 

 

Wednesday, January 3, 1979 $106.30 $242.30

 

A nice day. I did a big wash. Had to go to town. The checks came. Delores went with us. Bill had a fire in the new stove. He likes it very much.

 

 

 

Thursday, January 4, 1979 COLD

 

A very nice day, I got up early. Got my work done. Betty came, she, Joy and I went to New Hampshire. We grocery shopped.

 

 

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