(1994 October)
I called a maid to bring me a drink and fold up a blanket I crocheted, and she said, "Be quick. the boss said I should be out of here by ten." I said, "Hurry up and go. It's that now." So she went. She must be the oldest maid, Dolly. People say when this place opened she was the first one to apply. She says she has a husband lame from a car accident, she works here and does housework for other people not able to do their own. She did what I asked and tickled me under a protruding foot and took off.
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.
About Me
- Polly
- 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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