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Title Wyman, David and Midge (Chicken), Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n.d., 1955-1988

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date n.d., 1955-1988

Language English

Subjects New Left

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription letter written in blue ink 2with circle around it
first week of August. And now we're getting dry again. The
past 2 days, however, have been excellent .. a rare
delight this year. How vegetables can grow under those
frigged up circumstances, I do not know. Even the
weeds have had a hard time of it. Nonetheless, Midge
sentence above this one Iunderlined haven't noticed that the weeds are having any trouble at all - but then, I'm prejudiced against them.
has been busily freezing things & will probably have
200 quarts stashed away by frost. We've also had
skunks, raccoons, woodchucks, & chipmunks to bedevil us --
especially the last 2. The damn chipmunks eat the soybeans
as they ripen. Soybeans are 1/2 our protein supply.
Maybe we'll bend our vegetarianism enough to shift to
chipmunk for protein intake.

I've been working pretty diligently on the book, but mostly

have been sorting through & organizing the materials. I practically
have an archive of my own now. I've had a fair amount
of response to my Commentary article. If the library of
the "Athens of the West" subscribes to commentaryunderlined, you might
want to look at the letter section in the July & the upcoming
September issues. Phillip Nobile, a syndicated columnist ("Uncommon
Conversations") put out an interview with me on the same

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 36 Folder 1736

BibID 992006198805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

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