(1955 Easter)
No, I didn't go to the Quiet Day Wednesday, but I did go to Madison with Daddy Thursday. Colder, more miserable weather I have seldom walked in. The damp wind on the Square nearly blew me flat. Manchesters were closed all morning and I had to travel around the Square. I got MM a little dress at the Emporium and a skirt at Pennys and that was all. By noon I was so exhausted I couldn't get a thing for myself - alarming. Was home 3:45. And glad to be 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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