(1952? Summer)
Rain this morning and no camp; so we carve our designs on carrots tomorrow morning. Monday, the first day, left me a wreck (30 Brownies pointing their teaspoons at me simultaneously demanding to know whether their Plaster of Paris was hardening OK almost de trop) but I went back Tuesday, and tho I have been sleeping afternoons and going to bed early, I have been all right. Ann Rose [Meadows, another leader] seems to be exhausted and nervous when I see her. Tomorrow will be the last day.
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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