(1958 October 17, on note card showing arcitect's concept drawing of St. Barnabas' church)
Our Auxiliary is selling this paper. The setting seems to be Sherwood Forest, to block out other buildings. [The same drawing was recycled in 2009 to illustrate the plate celebrating the church's centennial.]
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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