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, June 5, 2021

November 8 - 11, 1978 Walter Grime's visits

Wednesday, November 8, 1978

 

Cloudy all day. I done regular work. We put some of the furniture back in living room, the rugs looks good. I did a wash. Bill had some dirt hauled in down to the spring. He leveled it off. Walt didn’t go to work today. He don’t look very good. It cleared off at about 4 PM.

 

 

 

Thursday, November 9, 1978

 

I went to town with Susan and Delores. We shopped for Fern also. Then I worked at Betty’s all rest of the day. Came home, got supper.

 

 

 

Friday, November 10, 1978 Walter Grimes

 

It was nice in a.m. but it got cloudy. I did a big wash. Cleaned up the house. I had a lot to do but in PM I went with Betty and the kids all up through West Paris etc. Saw Flicka’s father. Tonight Betty, Walt, Carmen and Kim all went and got Walter. He came for the weekend. He is a freshman at University of Maine in Orono. Zak came up here to stay all night.

 

 


Carmen, Walter and Ebony


 

Saturday, November 11, 1978 Veterans Day

 

Kind of a cloudy day. I done my regular work, washed windows, floors, changed all the beds, cooked. Zak watched TV all forenoon until after the wrestling was over. Billie over to Norway, got a haircut etc. Busy all day. Bill down to the camp little while. Kimmy came up. Fern up for supper and evening. Joy and Laurie called in evening.

 

 

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