Nov 29, 2013

Mon, Nov 29, 1943: menu

"Did you have as good a menu for Thanksgiving as you thought you were.  We didn't have any proverbial turkey, but instead had chicken, gravy, dressing, potatoes, peas, celery, pickles, cranberry sauce and apple pie.
"Since Stanley is too busy to write in that he is making up his arithmetic he missed last week, he is giving news items to tell you.  Buzzy has four pups and of course Stanley thinks they are wonderful.  Then he wants to tell you that Old Mary Jane has a calf."
          -- Letter from my grandmother, Bloomington, Kans., to my father, Cape Girardeau, Mo., Monday, November 29, 1943.

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