The Nankin Township Historical Society

An example of the Marjon School of Cosmetology student application despite it being rather wrinkled from being folded up in a suitcase for 47 years. It will flatten out more now that it is properly sleeved. Tuition for the 11 month course was $300. Which, I believe, included the kit I purchased at the estate sale. Though, obviously, some of the original parts are probably long gone.

Sylvia Steele's Registration permit from the state of Michigan to become a student of cosmetology. Note that her age was 43. Either the kids had all had moved out and she was starting a career for herself or it was a change of careers for her.

scroll through the pages with the arrows at the middle edges of the book This is a fairly hardscrabbled collection of confessional verse that touches the heart like a stab wound from a dying cactus. Outside of the fact that these women were criminals there is nothing outstanding about the works. Still, it quenches my ephemeral lust just a little. I did research one case, that of Charlene Westerville, a baby killer, and that can be read on my now defunct Eloise blog . The other prisoner contributors are as follows: PUSH ON PEOPLE by Glenda Faye Buffing THE WAY I FEEL by Harriet Walker THE RUDE AWAKENING by Jannie Thomas THOUGHTS OF YOU by Sanda Watkins WHAT IS IT? by Ann Marie Felton SNOW by Sandra Magnuson WHERE HAVE I BEEN, WHERE AM I GOING? by Yvonne Patrick Kaufman I REMEMBER by Anonymous REFLECTION by Anonymous DEATH OF NOT ENOUGH by Sylvia Peper JAIL by Willie Jones LIFE by Ruth Ann Nichols PETRIFIED by ShaBooDie CLOUDS by Mary Cuevas HERE I SIT by Arcenia Skinner WORDS OF WISDOM ...