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, January 15, 2015

September 13 - 19, 1947



Saturday, September 13, 1947

Washed. Bill and I went to town in eve with Kennard and Dolores. Mama down to Mina’s all night.



Sunday, September 14, 1947

Cloudy. Bill worked some down cellar. Billie and Lloyd got Bills other heifer home. Papa died three months ago today.



Monday, September 15, 1947

Hot. Washed. Didn’t do much today.



Tuesday, September 16, 1947

Bill didn’t work. He began on the cellar. Mama down to Dr. Sherburnes.



Wednesday, September 17, 1947

Betty and I here alone today. Mama down to Dot Prescotts.



Thursday, September 18, 1947

Betty and I went up to Dolores. We see young Fred Linscott’s truck burn.



Friday, September 19, 1947

Showery. I walked over to Aunt  Joe’s. Cold today. Canned squash.



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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

September 6 - 12, 1947



Saturday, September 6, 1947

Canned, cooked. Bill and I went to town with Kennard. Billie got his new calf tonight.



Sunday, September 7, 1947

Hot. Bob Grover called to see Bill about his car. We washed and churned. Bill and Kennard got tractor to going. All ate outdoors and Fern and Lloyd.



Monday, September 8, 1947

Lester Ames got hurt awful bad his tractor ran over him. School began.



Tuesday, September 9, 1947

I went over to Aunt Joe’s. Betty went with me. I didn’t do much.

Betty Crook and Martin Ashby 1947



Wednesday, September 10, 1947

Hot. Bill, Bob and Ava and I went to Norway. I washed. Mama down to Mina’s.



Thursday, September 11, 1947

Very hot. Jean got a letter from Mr. Crook. Very encouraging about the folks coming over. To Aunt Lena’s today. Jack and Sylvia and Kennard and Dot called. Billie got the heifer home tonight.



Friday, September 12, 1947

Hots. We canned tomatoes. Billie back up to Chet’s.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

August 30 - September 5, 1947



Saturday, August 30, 1947

Cloudy and cold showers late p.m. Bill home and pulled beans. Went to look for a car. We picked and canned shell beans.



Sunday, August 31, 1947

Clear and cool. Billie harrowed and hauled dressing. Bill worked on strawberry beds. Ava and Robert brought brooder home.



Monday, September 1, 1947

Bill worked. Billie hauled more dressing. Washed. Kennard and Dolores took Mama, kids and I down to the cemetery.



Tuesday, September 2, 1947

Showers. Canned beans. Bill came home and worked on his cellar.



Wednesday, September 3, 1947

Betty over to Joys all day and night. Val staying down with Billie. Aunt Linnie  and George came tonight. (?) Tinney had a little kitten.



Thursday, September 4, 1947

Nice day. Lloyd picked his corn. We made pickles. Blanche took her mother to Portland hospital. Joy here all day.



Friday, September 5, 1947

Made mustard pickles and other kinds. Dorothea and I went to town. Dorothea got her hair done.

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Monday, January 12, 2015

August 23 -29, 1947

Saturday, August 23, 1947

My corselet came. Cleaned up the house. Went to town in eve with Brud and Dot. Hot.



Sunday, August 24, 1947

Terribly hot. Bill worked at Kennard’s. Billie put up electric fence. Bill and I went to town with Bill and Evelyn Ridlon’s folks called in eve.



Monday, August 25, 1947

Went to town with Blanche in a.m. We washed, churned. I had Betty and Billie’s pictures taken at Olin Mills studio at A. L. Hall. Hot.



Tuesday, August 26, 1947

Cloudy light showers. Picked and canned blackberries. Bill and I went to the movies with the Ridlon’s.



Wednesday, August 27, 1947

Nice cool day. I went to Portland with Dot, Velma, and Hartley to see Aunt Mina, Ed Davis, Uncle Sulmore, and Del Shane.



Thursday, August 28, 1947

Churned. Ironed. Canned rhubarb pickles. Country fair today and night for hospital fund. Bill pulled beans.



Friday, August 29, 1947

Picked the last of the blackberries at Ferns. We canned corn. Wash. Kennard and Dolores up for some strawberry plants.



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Sunday, January 11, 2015

August 16 -22, 1947



Saturday, August 16, 1947

Much cooler. Picked and Mama canned 7 quarts string beans. Dorothea and I picked 15 quarts blackberries at Ferns. Canned 14 pints blackberries. Blyn Davis called. Downtown with Delores in the evening. Got another bushel peaches. Rained some today.



Sunday, August 17, 1947

Bill worked up to Kennard’s. I went up and called a few minutes in p.m.



Monday, August 18, 1947

Washed. Churned. Kennie, Fern, kids and I went up to Sweden blueberrying.



Tuesday, August 19, 1947

Canned blueberries and string beans and some peas. Bill home with lame back. Came off hot again. Carlton came up and said goodbye. Thena and George called.



Wednesday, August 20, 1947

Mama went to Portland with Dot. Aunt Mina not very good. Ed was glad to see her. Carlton left for Ohio to go to college.



Thursday, August 21, 1947

A very hot day. Need rain awful bad. Cleaned up the house. Dot went on a picnic over to Woods Pond.



Friday, August 22, 1947

Washed, churned. Very hot. They took Uncle Sulmore to hospital.


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