(1991 Aapril 9)
Once when she [Geraldine] was early divorced, she would get her kids off to school, then walk out to the Lamplighter Motel and clean. Until Social Service told her her kids were not in school, and if they were not, her social security was going to be stopped. So she stayed home, and her kids were just furious with her. I thought of a set of geography books used years ago, How the Other Half Lives. How little we know.
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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