(1980 memoirs)
I will say this about her [Lucretia Clapp], she knew how to solve her problems - some of them anyway. She lived in a great big white house with greenhouse nearby and the gardens and orchards behind. [By 2010 these had become the grounds of the Ripon High School.] By keeping on a college girl to work for her room and board, she managed to get her work done without paying for it.
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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