GREAT LIBRARY CELEBRATION
I have never seen more creativity than that of the CP Library board. Mostly the women. They had the Library decorated perfectly. One wall was painted a beautiful blue (after some disagreement among them). I spent almost an hour looking at a quilt that had been auctioned off a few years ago and donated to the Library. It had squares that had been painted, appliqued, needle-pointed, and included a lot of families. One square was particularly poignant. It was a clock face pointing at nine saying a stitch in time saves nine and was signed by Helen Walker who was buried last Saturday. The John Adams family had their family tree as did many others including the Bonner/McWilliams family. Judge Rolan Jones had a square showing CP in relation to all of the old forts in the area. A wall display plus two photo albums had the names and photos of veterans.
The food, paid for by Texas Heritage Bank, was great. The little wieners were cooked in grape jelly. The stuffed mushrooms were my favorite but there were dips and chips, nuts, punch and to add lagniappe, a chocolate fountain. But the special was the 30th anniversary cake with the top layer an open book with the two pages reading the history of the Library with the final line saying "to be continued". That was a great finale. We were busy from 3 to 7 with a lot of visitors. Margaret Waring came from Comanche, the director of the Big Country Library System came from Abilene, plus a lot of others, including Ike and Sue Neal.
I took the REH columns for the month of September to the Review office. Vanda came to take photos at the Library opening. I went in to help at 10 this morning and had time to visit with Carl Edington who told about his aunt who was a cousin of Lyndon Johnson having Lyndon spend the night with them occasionally. He wasn't a fan of Lyndon, but tolerated him. Also at the Library I met Ginny Hoskins sister-in-law from Kansas near Emporia. When I asked her if she knew Don Coldsmith she said she took a creative writing course from him. She said Eddie Coldsmith would know her father who was in Don's SS class at the Methodist church. When I got home I called Eddie and we talked for 30 minutes about Don and how he spent his last few weeks. They came to WWA in OK City for two days, but Kathy and I missed them. We both ate breakfast at the hotel and still missed them. They went home and in a couple of weeks, he had a pacemaker battery replacement that didn't heal well. Later he had a stroke and didn't last long after that. She is in good shape and is planning to substitute teach and offered to beat me in a foot race. Sounds like she could do it easily.
I am looking forward to the weekend in San Antonio to see Kathy and Val's homes, then to Bryan for Aggie football Saturday and Sunday to hear my grandson, Jim, give the sermon at his church plus a Monday off back in SA.
I have never seen more creativity than that of the CP Library board. Mostly the women. They had the Library decorated perfectly. One wall was painted a beautiful blue (after some disagreement among them). I spent almost an hour looking at a quilt that had been auctioned off a few years ago and donated to the Library. It had squares that had been painted, appliqued, needle-pointed, and included a lot of families. One square was particularly poignant. It was a clock face pointing at nine saying a stitch in time saves nine and was signed by Helen Walker who was buried last Saturday. The John Adams family had their family tree as did many others including the Bonner/McWilliams family. Judge Rolan Jones had a square showing CP in relation to all of the old forts in the area. A wall display plus two photo albums had the names and photos of veterans.
The food, paid for by Texas Heritage Bank, was great. The little wieners were cooked in grape jelly. The stuffed mushrooms were my favorite but there were dips and chips, nuts, punch and to add lagniappe, a chocolate fountain. But the special was the 30th anniversary cake with the top layer an open book with the two pages reading the history of the Library with the final line saying "to be continued". That was a great finale. We were busy from 3 to 7 with a lot of visitors. Margaret Waring came from Comanche, the director of the Big Country Library System came from Abilene, plus a lot of others, including Ike and Sue Neal.
I took the REH columns for the month of September to the Review office. Vanda came to take photos at the Library opening. I went in to help at 10 this morning and had time to visit with Carl Edington who told about his aunt who was a cousin of Lyndon Johnson having Lyndon spend the night with them occasionally. He wasn't a fan of Lyndon, but tolerated him. Also at the Library I met Ginny Hoskins sister-in-law from Kansas near Emporia. When I asked her if she knew Don Coldsmith she said she took a creative writing course from him. She said Eddie Coldsmith would know her father who was in Don's SS class at the Methodist church. When I got home I called Eddie and we talked for 30 minutes about Don and how he spent his last few weeks. They came to WWA in OK City for two days, but Kathy and I missed them. We both ate breakfast at the hotel and still missed them. They went home and in a couple of weeks, he had a pacemaker battery replacement that didn't heal well. Later he had a stroke and didn't last long after that. She is in good shape and is planning to substitute teach and offered to beat me in a foot race. Sounds like she could do it easily.
I am looking forward to the weekend in San Antonio to see Kathy and Val's homes, then to Bryan for Aggie football Saturday and Sunday to hear my grandson, Jim, give the sermon at his church plus a Monday off back in SA.
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