For what it's worth: Handing over family momentos
By MARCELLA BRUCE
Contributing writer
If the days last week and this week so far qualify as Indian Summer, I say "glory be!" and may there be more
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The cooler weather certainly prompts a change in food options. Soups and stews become popular immediately and a couple of my favorites are on this woman's agenda, potato-onion soup and Ball Game stew. There is also a new soup I plan to try that came from daughter Marcia called cauliflower-cheese. If it turns out well, I'll share it. There's another recipe, a dessert that Meredith Ryan shared, called Hershey Almond pie that I'm planning to prepare for some special event
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Enjoyed a weekend visit from son and wife, Skip and Lois, and their little black poodle Buddy. We ate too much during trips to Marquette and Lindsborg and again at home, but found time to go through "keepers" in the walnut chest made by my late Bud when he was in high school. Skip walked away (permission granted) with an old pair of military spurs belonging to my father. When they called Sunday evening to let me know they'd arrived home safely, Lois informed me that the spurs were already hanging on their brick fireplace wall, joining the old pendulum clock from the Marquette Tribune that had belonged to the Bruce grandparents.
I do believe my family cherishes the mementos of years past. While we all know that such are "just things," it pleases me.
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Recently I read an interesting pet peeve of someone that asks why some people hang signs on their houses with their surnames followed by an apostrophe and "s." For instance, like the Robert's or the Smith's. The apostrophe isn't needed, he says, after all the house is occupied by multiple Roberts and Smiths.
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This week, if all goes according to plan, the Kansas Indian with his bow and arrow pointed toward the North Star , will be placed atop the Kansas Capitol dome in Topeka.
Thanks to Don and Pauline Greenhaw, Marguerite Goertz and I accompanied them to Marquette where the Ad Astra was on display recently. The sculptor, Richard Bergen, and his wife, the former Lou Ann Lindstrom of Marquette, were there.
Lou Ann was in school when I taught music there a bunch of years ago. It was a special treat to visit with them and to view, close up, the impressive work of art.
Interesting note — the flatbed trailer on which the 22-foot, 4,400 pound figure lay was a Donahue, manufactured in Durham. Bergen couldn't get over Jim Donahue's generosity in loaning the trailer at no cost on its extended tour of multiple towns and cities in Kansas. And, that tour included an 8 a.m. stop in Durham last Thursday.
