(1993 Winter)
You say I never tell about the meals. Breakfast I had scrambled eggs on a brown bread buttered toast, jelly, cornflakes, black tea. Dinner at noon - 1/2 boiled potato with butter and parsley over top, fish (choice), peas, fruited buns, black tea. ...
At our table, I sit at one end, in a draft. To my left, A: think of the duchess in Alice; only yesterday I saw her delivered in a wheelchair. Then B: he has a small round nose, ever sneezing in an "Ah-choo" fit; also many others; will we all be coming down with colds? Next C: small man, big appetite; no conversation. Finally the woman on my right, D: as classy as you can get in a wheelchair self propelled; says "My doctor sent me here."
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.
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- A lifelong Wisconsinite, Carolyn Parsons (1904-1997)got a B.A. in English at Ripon College, taught high school, and in 1930 married Lorin L. Kay, a lawyer first in Milwaukee and from 1938 on in Richland Center (he died in 1970). Their children: Mary Margaret and Richard/Skip, editor of this blog.
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