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, November 24, 2022

Thanksgiving 1944 - Nanny's First Diary Thanksgiving

 

Nanny all gussied up- 1944

 

Thursday, November 23, 1944 Thanksgiving

 

Thanksgiving chickens, mashed potatoes, sweet potato, turnip, squash, peas, boiled onions, cranberry sauce, fruit salad, pickles, hot rolls, gravy, pumpkin, custard, lemon sponge, apple pies, whipped cream cake, cream puffs, and Indian pudding. Lloyd came up and finished putting storm windows on. Bill worked, Bob and Ronald called and Kennard called in p.m. Also Fern and Lloyd in eve. (snowing)

 

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