(1980 memoirs)
Our teacher was a leather-faced, seasoned old biddy who rode her bicycle to school every day until snow came, and she knew pretty well what the questions might be and primed us accordingly. All of us could recite by heart without taking a full breath the circulation of the blood beginning with "Starting at the left ventricle" -- or is it the right auricle? Does it matter? We also knew the causes of the Civil War, rules for spelling, the names of our senators, and a lot more.
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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