(1980 memoirs)
Are you wondering why she kept the privy? Well, why not? What if the inside toilet broke some day? or the water froze or was turned off? Where should we be then? It was a little house, scrubbed clean and unused, just kept in readiness. And one early November day when we had an early mean biting stinging snowfall, here my dear cousin was -- on top of the outhouse, nailing down a few new shingles she had been meaning to get at all summer long.
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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