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In these two recordings made on August 26-27, 1972, and sent to daughter Diane Biswell Ferrier in Chapel Hill, NC, Charles and Mary Biswell tell the news from Woodstown, NJ. Charles's sister Helen Biswell Forbes and brother Frederic Biswell from Fayette, MO, had recently visited them. Diane and her family had also visited them over the summer.
Charles reads a letter that Helen had sent to him after her return to Missouri.
Charles also reads a letter from Mary's brother Ralph Yancey which describes his and his wife Betty's new house in St. Joseph, MO. He was moving back to Missouri from Williamsburg, VA. His (and Mary's) mother Mary Minor Yancey was living nearby in Hiawatha, KS, at the time, in the home of his sister Frances and her husband Ray Meidinger.
They talk about daughter Jane Biswell Golub's mother-in-law entering a nursing home.
When the Ferriers were visiting the Biswells in Woodstown. Diane's husband David Ferrier bought a shopping cart full of day-old bakery items for $5 from the Acme supermarket. Many were "candy cakes," cheap cakes with white frosting and a jelly fruit candy on top. They were brought back to Chapel Hill put in the freezer. Some may even have made the move to Orangeburg, SC, in the summer of 1973. It has become a family legend.
Karen Ferrier's 6th birthday was on August 27, and she and Robert would be attending Frank Porter Graham Elementary School in Chapel Hill the next day, Karen in first grade and Robert in second.
Okie Kreimeyer was a co-worker of Charles's at DuPont. Both were retired by 1972. Suda was his wife.
Johnnie Wallace was their neighbor on Chestnut Drive in Woodstown.
The mystery of who drew on the lampshade with a crayon was never solved, and the suspects are still not talking even if the statute of limitations has expired.
I well remember how mad I was when David brought those darn cakes from the Acme right before we left for Chapel Hill. I knew Daddy put him up to it 'cause of the little smile he had on his face. As I think back those cakes lasted forever. Don't think we could even give them away. After checking with Karen we have no recollection of the lamp shade incident. The guilty one seems to remember the details.
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