June 1, 1978<\/p>\n
Dear ranch folk:<\/p>\n
Hi everyone. It\u2019s been another great day in Jonestown. We have some rain now, but it doesn\u2019t hamper us much, just quick hard rain occasionally. Everything is really green & lush.<\/p>\n
While, everyone is blossoming here of course, thanks to Dad. Kim [Dutra], little Bippy [Davis] wants to write to you, and I\u2019m going to help her at the end of the week. She is doing very well in school, is alert and sharp. She has a really sweet smile. She would like a picture of you, she said. So try to send one, ok? Juanita B. [Bright] just said to say hi to everyone there. It would be nice to have some pictures of all of you there, it is really a pleasure to receive your letters also even though Kim has a broken hand, hmm? I know you all must be very busy there so I surely understand that it\u2019s not always possible to write. Here we have had a big craze going on to make little pillows from scrap materials. The children are getting a real bang out of sewing, especially the boys<\/em>. I make them do it themselves so they won\u2019t be dependent on us sisters. We have women\u2019s liberation meetings now for men & women separately. They can be very enlightening. I know you sisters would enjoy them, maybe we can get these brothers & sisters enlightened. With the news we are becoming aware of, we will all be well informed and liberated<\/em> people.<\/p>\n Claire, Daren [Janaro] may go to Georgetown on the next trip to see Richard [Janaro]. Dad had stopped by the animals a few days ago & told him & Mauri [Janaro] they could take turns visiting him. So Daren\u2019s trying to arrange that now. I wouldn\u2019t mind seeing him myself. Hope he can come out again before too long. He does a tremendous job in town. Dad really depends on his skills. We received some of the films that Don, I guess, has taped on that new machine, they are really great & the children love them. All I can say is more, more, more<\/em>. Hope a lot can get done before they come down for a visit. Well, I\u2019ll close for now & hope everything continues to go well for all of you there. Dad really appreciates all of you a great deal. All right again soon. Oh yeah, Ellen [Klingman] does PE for jr. high & elementary. She\u2019s doing a great job & loves it. Surprise huh?<\/p>\n Warmest thoughts,<\/p>\n Marlene<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":13160,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13167","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13167\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}