Commun ty Matters Kansas City Presbyterian Manor
Growing up a gardener
Minnie Younghans, a lifetime gardener.
Kansas City Presbyterian Manor resident MinnieYounghans doesn’t remember life without a garden. “My whole life was spent working the family farm,” said Minnie.
Since she can remember, Minnie’s role on the family’s 25 acres in Kansas City, Kan., included weeding and picking. They farmed a variety of things including vegetables and flowers, but alfalfa was their major crop. After her parents passed away, Minnie and her brother continued to live on the family farm to keep up the garden. Their grown items were sold at the produce market.
When asked if she had any gardening tips to share, Minnie replied, “You better like hard work if you are going into gardening.” And when it comes to her favorite farm food, Minnie is a fan of string beans. “They were and still are my favorite.”
June 2015
June is bustin’ out all over FROM CHAPLAIN DIANE GUNSOLLEY
Put on your thinking cap. I’m going to test your knowledge of Rogers and Hammerstein musicals. The musical I’m thinking of opened in 1945. Richard Rodgers later wrote that it was his favorite of all his musicals. The story line revolved around a young carousel barker name Billy Bigelow who dies young in a robbery attempt but is given a chance to make things right for his daughter.
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The musical? … Carousel. The show includes a very appropriate song for this time of year. Tap your toes and smile because “June Is Bustin’ Out All Over.” March went out like a lion A whippin up the water in the bay Then April cried and stepped aside,
And along come pretty little May!
May was full of promises But she didn’t keep ‘em quickly enough for some And a crowd of doubtin’Thomas’s Was predictin’ that the summer’d never come
But it’s comin, by gum, We can feel it come, You can feel it in your heart You can see it in the ground
You can see it in the trees You can smell it in the breeze Look around! Look around! Look around!
Do you feel it in your heart? Are you ready to enjoy fresh strawberries BUSTIN’ OUT ALL OVER continued on page 2