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Barbara Bird to George Kephart, October 20, 1950, page 3

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Item 1 - Barbara Bird to George Kephart, October 20, 1950, page 1
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Barbara Bird to George Kephart, October 20, 1950, page 1

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Item 2 - Barbara Bird to George Kephart, October 20, 1950, page 2
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Barbara Bird to George Kephart, October 20, 1950, page 2

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Barbara Bird to George Kephart, October 20, 1950, page 3

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Barbara Bird to George Kephart, October 20, 1950

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  • (3) I have mailed each of you a copy of North Country Life in which there is a rather poor picture of Greystone Manor and a description of it, written by Marjorie Hough (of the Hough family long known to us). I hope to see Marjorie Hough soon and ask her more about the Arthur sisters, Edith and Mabel, who run Greystone Manor. I have interviewed both of them and liked them. They are so far superior to the average attendants in nursing homes as to be startlingly refreshing to one who has made quite a study of nursing homes re- cently. For one thing, the Misses Arthur are ladies. Also they are intelligent and understanding and imbued with human warmth, I should judge. They purposely refrain from calling their establishment a Nursing Home by name. There is not even a sign out. The only thing that impresses you with the fact that it is not a private home, is a card at the front door:”will visitors please not call between the hours of 11:30 -- 1:30 4:30 -- 6:30 or After 9:00PM The room I thought would be best for Mamma is in the left front corner (up- stairs) in the picture. Two windows at front (East) and one window at side (South). Bat^hroom opens off this room. It is between this and the correspond- ing back room (unoccupied at present). At the most there would be no more than three people who would use that bathroom. Right now the other rooms are not occupied; so it would be equivalent to a private bath. Place is well heated, night and day, all weathers. Food is very good and is served in the rooms. One of the Arthur sisters is a trained nurse, I believe. The other sister and women who help are not trained nurses but there is someone in attendance, night and day. Place is clean and adequately furnished. The front windows look uot [sic] across a nice ^large lawn and through big trees to the main road. Martinsburg is a village about half the size of Masonville, it is a couple of miles from Lowville and less than twenty from Boonville. Hospital in Lowville. As to outlook; on a hill in farming country. Next South ^about 100 feet is a country store, people coming and going. Post office a few houses down, same side of road. Miss Arthur says that if they have any request for that room, she will call me first before renting it. I told her Mamma’s old home was Ithaca & we are looking there. [the following is written along the left and right margins] Ask me any questions you think of about any of this business. Fuller details of expenditures of past years, etc, will be forwarded soon. Don’t feel rushed. There is no great hurry.
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Horace Kephart

Background and Early Career Horace Kephart was born in 1862 in Pennsylvania, but spent much of his youth in Iowa. He went on to achieve success in two careers. Trained as a...

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