(1949 October 10)
Goodnight, Sweet Prince - I shall now go up to bed and varnish myself in and hope that Mary M doesn't have to paddle down the hall in the middle of the night and that all will be dry by morning so we can rise. If not, a perfect excuse for not attending services. If we get out and go to church, I will mail this letter tomorrow and if you do not get it, that is a sign we are still varnished in.
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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