(1974 December 2)
Unasked for advice: ... (2) I hope you will cut your hair so that you present a very neat appearance. When you go to ... do business, [at] banks where older and neater people are, you will find they would rather do business with a person who does not present a wild (collegiate) appearance. "I hope you realize I am saying this for your own good." (Calm down, now.)
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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