(Dogs 7)
Jennie played with the baby and was loved by all; but she was really my dog, rarely leaving my side. If I hung clothes on the line, Jenny came in and out with me; if I sat down to read, she lay at my feet; when I lay sick on the davenport, she was tight against 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
- 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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