(1941 Fall)
[To her Aunt Lois:] Skip loves his school this year [fifth grade] and loves his teacher [Wanda Roberts]. She disciplines them, yet is kind. I must take the stamp off your letter for him. He saves everything for his album or for trading with other boys. Lorin is so good to him, and they go over their stamps together. Skip is so like his father in appetite and all.
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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