I spent some time this afternoon working on scanning and transcribing a few more of Esther’s letters. The last one, from Clark, includes a newspaper clipping about the deadly train-car wreck in Piper City, Illinois.
Day: September 1, 2007
Asschapeaux
When we are in a severe drought–and we are–it’s a really bad idea to set off fireworks in the middle of a tinder dry field. I am, apparently, surrounded by asschapeaux.