(1980 memoirs)
[Florence Clapp] grew up well educated and graduated in music from Ripon College in piano. Her parents "kept her down," were very strict, and she was not allowed to have any beaux, any fun. So of course what was to happen did happen and she fell in love with the hired man, Herman Hillsburg.
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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