"To-day opens the Democratic Convention and as it looks no other than Franklin D. Roosevelt. It seems rather funny that they have only one man who is capable of the big job....
"Barbara has been helping Daddy quite a bit in the field. She likes to drive the tractor so she helped plow a field then Monday they cultivated some kaffir. But it rained yesterday morning so the rest of the kaffir will have to wait a few days. We needed the rain which was only a local affair as Daddy went to El Dorado and Augusta yesterday and no rain was reported there. Barbara's face was so sunburned it was almost the color of red flannel."
-- Letter from my grandmother, Bloomington, Kans., to my father, Notre Dame, Ind., Wednesday, July 19, 1944.
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