(1993 June 30)
There is a nice maid here who often answers my bell at night - an ample figure, the prettiest blue eyes ever, married and two little girls.... They are about two, and their father can be with them nights when she works. ... When she comes in, I teach her a word in French, which delights her. "Just rattle off a sentence quick," she said tonight, "so I can hear how it sounds." I want to give her a book, but she says no time. And as we talked, a bell rang for her to go.
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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