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 28, 2024

August 18 - 21, 1991 Hurricane Bob

 

Sunday, August 18, 1991

 

Walt up for coffee.

 

 

 

Monday, August 19, 1991 MR. BOB CAME

 

HURRICANE. A bad hurricane arrived here, it came up the Atlantic coast. It was a fast-moving one and bad too. Right here it could have been worse. Bad enough though. We were lucky we didn’t lose our electric power. Dorothea and David did and many many other people. Betty and Carmen came, prepared us for this hurricane. Stayed in the house instead of the porch.

 

 

 

Tuesday, August 20, 1991

 

Nice and sunny all forenoon. In p.m. it got cloudy. Today Arthur and Sylvia Andrews called, brought us some cukes. Early 7:30 to 8 Dorothea called, also Carmen came. She, Betty and I went up to see the rabbits. Also to see the tree (the old Maple) down home. It sure got gutted out during the bad storm yesterday.

 

 

 

Wednesday, August 21, 1991

 

Quite cloudy all day, some rain and showers. I did a dite of wash. No one called today. Carmen had to go to work at three so I got the supper. She brought up sloppy Joe’s. Verna down to Betty’s all p.m.

 


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