Polly Kay (1904-1997) vividly and with humor describes her life in Richland Center, Wisconsin, in excerpts from letters to her son Skip written after 1949, including her 5 last years in an old folks' home.
September 1, 2009
Mercury
(1953 December)
I dropped our thermometer and broke it and I think it was worth the fun we had with the mercury. Daddy got to telling how he would bring some to school in a hanky and press it and it would go right through the cloth.
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