Tag: North Carolina

A Monday Morning Message

Apr 13, 2009

There are treasures in the Folk School archives that help us get perspective for understanding the days we live in. Anna Shearouse, who works in our archives, found this item. It is one of the “Monday Morning Messages” of William H. Danforth, who founded the Purina company. He wrote these to his employees for forty years. This one is dated May 23, 1932:
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