Feb 17, 2017

Mon, Feb 17, 1947: hard-looking women

"Friday night the Bloomington Church had a pie supper at the Schoolhouse to get the means to buy a furnace.  The proceeds amounted to about $117.  You should be proud of your mother as I won a large angel food cake as the best looking married lady there.  I hesitate a little about spreading that news as people might think this is a community of hard-looking women."

--Letter from my grandmother, Bloomington, Kans. to my father, Winfield, Kans., Monday, February 17, 1947.  My grandmother was just shy of her fiftieth birthday.

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