(1980 memoirs)
In Frankie's dining room stood a large china cupboard lined with a pleasant red calico and filled with dishes I loved. The sauce dishes were rectangular in shape, about 2 1/2 X 6, and I have never seen any like them since. Cup hooks were evenly spaced, everything thought out and beautifully constructed. The outside had some hand carving but was not too ornate. The whole was probably walnut. And this dear soul sawed every board, pounded in every nail, everything all by herself! It was amazing to me then and more so now.
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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