"Dearest
DeVere: It is Sunday again and the day has been full as usual as well as the
entire preceding week.
"Last
Monday (being the first since my school was out) I did a 4-week's washing. Tuesday was the Senior's assembly as Evelyn
Myers went with me to hear the will, prophecy and history of the Senior
Class. Barbara played 'Chloe' and 'Rag
Picker' which sort of harmonized with the rest of the program. Several girls also sang songs 'Sentimental
Journey' and such. We were unable to
hear all of it but it was pretty funny.
"Wednesday
I got the said 4-week's ironing completed then Thurs., Fri. and Saturday I
spent almost the entire time cooking and washing dishes. Daddy was putting up hay and got a load of
P.W.'s [prisoners of war] to help him each day.
They were all pretty good workers.
They put some of it in the hay barn and baled the rest and put in the
barn. Then Sat. the prisoners helped
clean out the barn. It was a pretty big
job since it had been collecting all winter and you almost had to use a
step-ladder to enter the stables."
--Letter
from my grandmother, Bloomington, Kans., to my father, Boulder, Colo., May 27,
1945. My father’s sister, Barbara, was finishing her senior
year of high school. The prisoners were
presumably Germans, like those my grandfather had gotten earlier (see August
1944).
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