The Ribbon Clerk

[The following notes appear to be planning for a story, which Virginia may or may not have eventually written.]

Rogers family 8 - also tourist home

Very few people came to live in _____ voluntarily. It was mostly the circumstance of being born there and having no choice. When the _____family set-up housekeeping in the old Coppedge house, nobody imagined they would have the impact they eventually did. They were like having the circus or the carnival stay all year instead [of] one single week. Excitement

As if visual were vulgar. Remember how some people used to say they didn't care for television. They preferred to read or listen to good music on radios or records.

The Ribbon Clerk

mix that up with
the Rogers family
the daring teacher
how poverty was a convenient excuse for rejecting vulgarity

[Undated notes by Virginia McKinnon Mann.]