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.
November 13, 2012
Picking up chips
(1990s memoirs)
My father, Frank Parsons, lived as a boy in Waupun, Wisconsin.... The family was poor and his earliest memory was "picking up chips" for his mother, Martha, to get an early morning fire going for the family breakfast.
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