A late poet’s words hit home, 67 years later | Editor’s notes

A late poet’s words hit home, 67 years later | Editor’s notes

Maud Ludington Cain was a resident of Marshalltown, Iowa. She died in 1965, and I’m guessing she’d be as surprised as anyone to learn one of her poems is being published today in the Chico Enterprise-Record. I give full credit to a friend of hers who is a loyal reader of our newspaper — along with the still-amazing power of the old-fashioned press to connect people throughout the generations, even from 1,800 miles away. I’ll get to the poem in a…