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Show top Annual reunion in Missom By MARCELLA WALKER I almost hesitate to write this column since my last one, two weeks ago, was about our quickie trip to California. This one is going to be about our regularly scheduled vacation to Missouri last week. Sorry about that! The family reunion for my ' father's side of the family is held every two years in either Missouri, Oregon or Utah. Our family is kind of spread out and so we do it this way to make it easier for those who live in one area or another to make it to the reunion at least every six years when it is held in their locale. Of course, this one was mainly attended by those from Missouri, but we were there and my cousin from California was there and so was her son and his family from Pennsylvania. We always tie in the reunion with a visit to historic places in the vicinity. This year we went to the Harry S Truman Library, which we have seen before, the Harry S Truman home, which has just been opened to the public, Liberty Jail, and we arrived in Independence in the middle of the Great Race. This is a race from California to Boston of older model cars, like from the 1930's era. The long procession pro-cession had attracted a large crowd. less' "i me"1' I ; u V- J fees ; c r We were there for quite,,.! and really enjoyed the day " I learned a few things aboutt'-Amish aboutt'-Amish which were interestins." They do not like to have I. pictures taken. They don't mj'. you taking pictures of their horse and buggies but not of them. W they do not like to be the objecttf curiosity and I don'tblametW. g that. ! They don't meet in churches 1 they meet in homes about twice; t! month. ' 9 Married men all wear beard: but unmarried men do not f The women and girls weardari dresses, long, and little bonneii 1 often white prayer bonnets. Men wear dark trousers wit suspenders and white or light tt. ' ored shirts. They wear a hat as t the voune bovs. As we drove down the street we saw all these folks sitting out in the shade of their trees like they were waiting for a parade. They had their video cameras and everything. every-thing. - We kind of figured right off that they were not waiting there just for us to go by, after all we had not told them we were coming, and so we wondered what it was all about. My cousin, who was with us, suggested that it might be because the old cars from the Great Race could be coming through, but we had not heard about the race, except ex-cept in the movie of several years ago. Sure enough . When we got to the place to buy tickets to go see the Truman home, there were all these old cars parked around the town square and nearby streets. It was a lunch stop for the race and townspeople were out by the droves to see these gorgeous old cars. Streets were blocked off and we could not find a place for lunch at was not terribly crowded. or waiting in line for quite some time in a little soda shop which still sold sassparilla, we made our order. Shortly thereafter we foundouttheyhadfood tents set up about a block away in which we could have bought our lunch in a shorter time. Oh, well! We went to Jamesport, an Amish community one day. It was a new experience for us and we enjoyed en-joyed seeing the little buggies drawn by nice looking horses. We went to some of their little shops and saw some quaint things and bought a few of them. Come on over and I'll show you some of the stuff we got. There were lots of antique and gift shops in J amesport proper. The Amish shops were out in the coun- They are very self-sufficient -They do not use modern appliances and no electricity. For the first time inmylifelsai cut oats in the fields of the Amish. B They were in little mounds will . sheaves of oats laying across ti C top of the mound. Itwasaninterestingexperiem J all around. I even bought a nice little antique sugar bowlandcrean pitcher which I love. We went toNauvoo, 111. for to days. We have been there befm ; but more has been added since ti were there and we really enjoyed; again. It was nice to visit with the Leonhardts and Steineckerts are on missions there. We also were able to spend i considerable amount of time wii Brother and Sister Dearing, parents par-ents of Roylene Weight ofPleasar.i Grove. In addition to a nice visit the; invited us to their apartment (i small restored home used by jk missionaries) for ice cream. really enjoyed our visit with w We saw a very enjoyable muss program put on by the missions.1: couples and two lady missiona It was funny, the music was s-perb, s-perb, and the story entertaining; The entire production was ten by Sister Sorenson whosetat ily used to own Southeast mature ma-ture in Salt Lake City. Her husband carves du st; other such birds from wood u-makes u-makes them look like they stuffed rather than carved. workmanship was something will long remember. . . Anyone going to Nv r summer should be sure to sto?-and sto?-and see his work and watcn it- this travelog, close but we did have a very derfultime. By the way.thedrou M. causing many P e parts of the rnidAjert J were in, Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois. -A In fact, tney were payi j newspapers back there. national media if" about "disasters" and w ro muchmoreoutofthedrougWt really exists. miff? ' Weheardofonlyone , which had restricted trie , WaSefarmersaidthatheh;jM the best wheat crop , had had in several year , Just thought you rmgn know. |
