Carolyn Gay Taft Farm Letter - March 10, 1936

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Title

Carolyn Gay Taft Farm Letter - March 10, 1936

Subject

Old Mission Peninsula (Mich.)
Agriculture
Farmers
Crops and climate

Description

Carolyn Gay Taft (1873-1952), was the owner of a small cherry farm on Old Mission Peninsula in the early 1900’s. While she spent her summers on the Peninsula, her primary job as a teacher at the Illinois State School for the Deaf required hired hands to run the farm in her absence. These farmers, and their families, lived on the farm and sent frequent written reports to Ms. Taft. Most letters are written by the farmer’s wives, and provide a record of both agricultural and social history.

Creator

Ralph Kitchen, Joseph Kitchen, Essie Kitchen, Max Gilmore, Hazel Gilmore

Source

Collection donated to Peninsula Community Library by the surviving members of the Taft family.

Publisher

Peninsula Community Library

Date

1936-03-10

Contributor

Mary T Morgan

Rights

This document is protected by copyright law. Contact the Peninsula Community Library for permission to reproduce, display, or transmit this document.

Relation

None

Format

PDF

Language

English

Type

Document

Identifier

LHC 010

Coverage

Traverse City, Peninsula Township, Grand Traverse County, Michigan

Scripto

Transcription

To Miss Taft:

are weather is getting to be beautiful sunny days and even nite's are beautiful moon light you can hardly sleep.

Ronald say he will so be able to milk suprise her tits are getting so big. She is rather bosses to her mother around. She takes first drinks and mother waits till suprise get ready to let her come. Max say she getting pretty reckless with her horn's. Ronald has enjoyed the color book very much. He likes pasteing too.

Mr Spruit is fired from high school. He was caught have and affare with and teachere by the name miss Grey by one pupil in school building. Mr Spruit tryed to buy him off. The kid though he would first. by he said was to good to keep, as there was a lot of pupil that disliked him. So the news traveled fast. He was ask to resign But he said no he had a year contract. So they had special meeting of board and fired him. Monday. March 9.

They say Mrs Spruit is nearly crazy.

Max is digging out some cherry tree's. out snow. Mrs Frank Pheleps seem to be a very agreeable neighbor and pleasent.

I hope spring is just around corner. I hear crow's honking away the other day. I am hopeing we will not have are private Lakes this year. But I suppose we will.

Max + I are trying to figure a way to wash the kitchen. I am afraid to get up so high on the slippery floor. I don't know if new laid floor made us any warmer, or not But they sure are pleasure to clean. + look at. I think Ronald health this year had some to do with new floor. we sure was breathing a lot of dust from old floor.

I guess Mrs Ida Lardie stays one week at Mrs. Minton willobee and one week up town. There isent much new's Mrs Tom Richards has new hired girl. she is expecting this month. Max has a chance to go back to Clawson, Mich to work again on Birning home. I guess that all new's

Sincerly Max + Family

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