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Rain, Rain, Go Away!

5/21/2017

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In July, the great flood of 1951 spread over the valleys of the Neosho, the Marias des Cygnes, the Kaw and the Missouri rivers. Nothing was sacred to the boiling waters, leaving only silt and wreckage in its wake. It filled the people with despair and discontent. In Clyde, it left not only these emotions, but also a desperate need for help. He found it in a whiskey bottle...
Excerpt from Signs Along The Way
We had only ten days without rain in the entire month of May, and people are getting a little testy. Critters too - the dogs actually want  to go out in the pen, and the chickens are literally cooped-up! I can pop a D vitamin to make me feel a little sunnier, but that doesn't change the depressing atmosphere. But we hear that relief is right around the corner, so we will keep on keeping on...
Grandma Layton suffered from bouts of depression for much of her life - deep despair that could not be brightened by a sunny day or a vitamin dose. Thirteen electroshock treatments didn't work, neither did drug therapy or a divorce from her alcoholic husband.
Signs Along the Way, a biography/memoir about Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton, tells of her journey from discontent to joy. Maybe it will encourage others as well. Carla
P.S. The sun just came out!
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Bob Good link
9/16/2020 02:22:06 pm

Dad supported both KCPT & the PBS in Topeka. Few yrs ago, the re-ran The Flood of '51, so I donated to get the DVD. Intend to give to Wellsv Library. Anyone still in town or Lenexa/Olathe (my Leawood cousins, all your mom's gen knew mom's bro) that I could drop off if/WHEN I get to KS?

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Robert Good
12/27/2022 05:00:05 pm

Wade or who else is in AR-Kansas, as my Grandma Good said, and she was born there, 2nd of 13--I gave the DVD to Wayne Linder, asked him & Marie to share w/ any interested & get it to the library.

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    If an inquisitive somebody were to demand a DNA analysis be done on the 3 sisters, he may not be surprised to find those twisted strands are coated with a healthy dose of printer's ink, given our pedigree and the many literary contributions from our maternal ancestors:
    Great-great-grandaunt 
    Florence Finch Kelly: 19th & 20th century Journalist/Novelist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Finch_Kelly
    Great-grandfather Asa Finch Converse: http://www.franklincokshistory.org/people-2/300-revision-v1/converse-asa-finch/
    Grandmother Elizabeth Hope Converse Nichols Layton: Newspaper Publisher/Editor, author, poet and artist. http://www.elizabethlayton.com
     Asa Finch Converse: Newspaper Publisher/Editor.
    Great-grandmother May Frink Converse: Columnist/Editor and Poet Laureate. http://www.franklincokshistory.org/peom/

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