(1987 early December)
I'd like to buy you a book I heard interviwed on radio yesterday called Extraordinary Origins of Every Day Things. Man said for years buttons were but ornaments until the Middle Ages, when someone thought of button holes. Do these facts delight you? I love them. Trivia so much more fun than Canon [law] data.
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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