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Susan Frawley Eisele holds her 6-week-old son, Albert Jr., at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City in 1936. Eisele, of Blue Earth, Minn., won an essay contest with Country Home magazine and was named best American rural correspondent of 1936.All the major newspapers published stories about Eisele's visit to New York City, including a photo of her receiving a giant pencil from Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.Eisele is shown here with her son (and the author's father) Albert Jr. in 1936. Eisele found out she had won the County Home contest the same day she gave birth to Albert, her sixth child.Susan Frawley Eisele holds her 6-week-old son, Albert Jr., at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City in 1936. Eisele, of Blue Earth, Minn., won an essay contest with Country Home magazine and was named best American rural correspondent of 1936.All the major newspapers published stories about Eisele's visit to New York City, including a photo of her receiving a giant pencil from Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.Eisele is shown here with her son (and the author's father) Albert Jr. in 1936. Eisele found out she had won the County Home contest the same day she gave birth to Albert, her sixth child.Susan Frawley Eisele holds her 6-week-old son, Albert Jr., at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City in 1936. Eisele, of Blue Earth, Minn., won an essay contest with Country Home magazine and was named best American rural correspondent of 1936.All the major newspapers published stories about Eisele's visit to New York City, including a photo of her receiving a giant pencil from Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.Eisele is shown here with her son (and the author's father) Albert Jr. in 1936. Eisele found out she had won the County Home contest the same day she gave birth to Albert, her sixth child.

When Mrs. Eisele Took Manhattan: Big City Failed To Awe Minnesota Journalist

In 1936, Country Home magazine sent its "rural correspondent of the year" Susan Eisele on a trip to NYC. With a 6-week-old in tow, she soaked up the city and hit it off with hard-bitten newspapermen.

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