Summer Reflections from a Kansas Town Poetic Pause
A nostalgic sketch recalls summers in Kansas with heat, bugs, and open windows, interwoven with cultural memories. The piece blends personal memories, Fourth of July festivities, and literary touches from Mark Twain to Sinatra, expressing a timeless, reflective love of the season.
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Carolina
New England
Oscar Hammerstein
Frank Sinatra
Andy Williams
Bilbao
MTV
Madonna
Eminem
Kansas
Topeka Daily Capital
Kansas City Times
Ed Howe
Atchison
Condensed Milk
Kingdom Come
Rebecca
Sunnybrook Farm
Treasure Island
Summer memories of childhood and farm life in autumnless heat
A reflective reminiscence of farm work and porch life in summer. The narrator recalls tending an outdoor garden with carrots, turnips, raspberries, currants, and apples, visiting relatives for fruit, climbing trees, and sleeping on the front porch. Poems by Bryant and Whittier frame a longing for past summers as the speaker nears eighty.
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Aunt Esther's
Riverdale
Johnson's Bakery
William Cullen Bryant
John Greenleaf Whittier
Bryant
Robert of Lincoln
Emerson and Longfellow
Beekeeping keeps 98 year old busy
Waldo McBurney age 98 continues beekeeping in Quinter Kansas with about 100 hives near clover and alfalfa fields. He toils with minimal daily care and swears by the bees unity and patience noting his colonies produce between 2500 and 13000 pounds of honey yearly depending on weather.
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Quinter
Waldo McBurney
McBurney
High Plains
Jim Kellie
Larned
Kansas
Kellie
Studley
Beekeeper McBurney Makes Bees a Community Classic
Questions about bees reveal amazing feats from two million flowers per pound of honey to hives flying 55000 miles. McBurney, an 85 year old beekeeping pioneer, bottles honey with help from his wife Vernice while guiding new beekeepers across the United States.
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United States
California
North Dakota
South Dakota
McBurney
Vernice
Sense for Seniors on Drug Interactions Explained
Aimed at older adults, the guide emphasizes telling your doctor about all medicines including OTCs and supplements. It explains drug drug, drug food, and drug condition interactions, plus the risk of side effects and the safety need to report any unwanted symptoms promptly. Betty Gibb, Kansas Senior Press Service, invites questions.
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Consumer Healthcare Products Assn
Rite
Betty Gibb
Kansas Senior Press Service
S. Sunset
Olathe Eadal
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Orastory
Dgourmethoneystore.com
USDA
U.S
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Boone
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Journal-World
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