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!

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

December 11 - 13, 1992 Ridge House Christmas Party

 

Friday, December 11, 1992 hair sets

 

Cloudy all day but we didn’t get any snow but they had a lot of snow, very high winds and flooding along the coast, New Jersey coast, Mass and bad in Portland. But we didn’t get anything here except clouds, wind and very cold. I wrote out more cards. I’m in hopes to finish writing them this weekend. Also Susan came this p.m. and set my hair. It is very dark. I didn’t want it like this, too dark. Dorothea came, she got the supper. She blow dried Dorothea’s hair.

 

 

 

Saturday, December 12, 1992

 

Another one of those cloudy windy days, on the coolish side. Dorothea came and done the whole works, changed beds, swept, dusted, washed windows and floors. She got the lunch and the supper. Tom called in for a minute. I got ready to go to the party at the Ridge House. It was a very nice party. It was beautiful. Everyone had a nice time. The refreshments were wonderful. The 1992 Christmas party was very nice. I enjoyed it all very much. The girls did a very good job, their house looked so nice. They are very smart. David didn’t come down for coffee this morning








 

 

 

Sunday, December 13, 1992

 

Well didn’t get up too early. Got up, got the breakfast. Walt up for coffee. It was a nice day. I wrote to Esther and wrote out Christmas cards. It took all day.

 

 

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