Letter from Home
Used to the Quiet Again
March 18, 1945: Anna writes a letter to her brothers with some news from the home front. She is “doing the best” but doesn’t know how things will be “when the new papoose comes.” This is one of the first letters that she has had a chance to write since Dad left Albany to return … Continue reading
The News on the Home Front
March 2, 1945: Anna writes a letter to her brothers, although most of the letter is directed to Stanley. She has a lot of updates. The first being that she expects to deliver her second child in four months, or as she puts it, “I have my good and sick days but it will soon … Continue reading
Write as Much as You Can
February 9, 1945: Anna writes a letter to her brothers. She admits that “I haven’t much to tell you in this letter.” She does mention, however, that they “haven’t heard from brother Stanley in three weeks and folks back home especially mama are wondering what has happened. Stanley, write as much as you can. You … Continue reading
The Snow is All Drifted
February 6, 1945. In an interesting coincidence, both Isabell Pawluc and Stanislaus Kosinski, two friends from Albany who are associated with the St Cecilia’s choir, write letters to Dad on the same day. The letters are interesting in that the same themes that were covered in Anna’s letter of February 3 are covered regarding the … Continue reading
A Critical Shortage of Coal
February 3, 1945. Anna writes a letter to her brothers from Albany. She acknowledges that “…it is again almost two weeks or over that I am typing to you, but time flies so fast…” Little Terry is taking a nap, so Anna takes the opportunity to get a letter done. She has a lot of … Continue reading
Don’t Fence Me In
January 15 and 19, 1945. Anna writes two letters to her brothers to keep them abreast of news from the home front in Albany, NY. She is still getting used to typing 1945 on the letters and the weather in Albany is typical for the winter with “another snow storm…a foot of snow…that dry fine … Continue reading
Santa Claus Was Very Good to Us
January 2, 1945. Happy New Year. Anna writes to her brothers, apologizing that “These holidays have held up my letter production.” She types a five page letter to bring her brothers up to speed on what has been going on in Albany at Christmastime. Like many holidays it included “all the good things to eat” … Continue reading
Milk is Milk
December 11, 1944: Anna writes a letter to her brothers. She starts the letter off telling a story of what was probably a common experience in the 40’s, but more than 70 years on is a window into a bygone time. She relates that “…a salesman was coming around and he was leaving bottles of … Continue reading
That Delicious Chicken Soup
December 4 and 7, 1944: Anna writes two letters from the home front in Albany, NY to her brothers. Anna and Eddie have pretty much settled into the routine of having their own place and had some guests over for dinner. “Eddie invited his parents to dinner and being Joe Miller was on leave a … Continue reading
So Natural and Simple
November 26, 1944: Anna writes a letter to her brothers from Albany. She and Eddie have settled into their new home now that they have the downstairs flat on Orange Street to themselves. Anna reflects that she thought she “would be scared to have a house of our own but it is all so natural … Continue reading