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!

Friday, June 10, 2022

August 22 - 25, 1982 Lobster Feast - Thanks Aunt Fern

Sunday, August 22, 1982

 

A quite nice sunny day. I got up about 7:30, got the breakfast and David, Dorothea called. I done up the work. Then we got ready to go up to the camp for the lobster and fried chicken feast sponsored by Fern. Betty’s family, us and Fern and Dorothea. It was a very good meal, corn, cukes, french fries, potato chips, lobster, fried chicken, cake, tea, coffee and tonic.

 


 

 

 

 

Monday, August 23, 1982

 

Cloudy and cold. House closed up all day. I didn’t do much. I frozen swiss chard for supper. Watched soaps. I cut out newspaper scraps today and tonight.

 

 

 

Tuesday, August 24, 1982

 

It was cloudy after heavy rains last night, until about 8:30 this morning then it cleared off nice and sunny rest of the day. And hot. I did a very big wash. We had a nice steak supper. Walt and Carmen here. Carmen home from work because she was sick all night, diarrhea and vomiting. Betty and kids gone to Conway New Hampshire to get a few more clothes. Billie got rest of the hen house done today.

 

 

 

Wednesday, August 25, 1982

 

A miserable day. It rained and some wind. I done my regular work. Kim up for breakfast. I went down to Betty’s, Susan was there, she went with us. We enjoyed the heritage room. It is very interesting. I missed two of my soap programs. I came home, finished my ironing and got supper.

 

 

 

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