(1978 July 20)
This morning I woke up to thunks which could only be roofers. I dressed and got breakfast and at length went into my study. Wow. The light fixture smashed into 10000000 pieces, glass all over. I got workman to take the one down over Daddy's desk. Then Mr. Sears [the boss] came and while he stood behind me, the last piece came crashing down! I screamed and he said something like O fudge. Said he'd buy me a new one. Later Mike and I laid papers over everything and cleaned up the glass. Wow.
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
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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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