And she danced

We gathered at Mount Pleasant Cemetery on Saturday to celebrate Freda’s life and to place Richard’s and her urns in the crypt. It was a lovely day, and Belinda had everything so well organized – no surprise there. It was a delight to see Joyce and Ray, who looked after me so well when I…

Kearney Missouri

We have stayed in Kearney before, just on the edge of Kansas City, it is a hub for hotels, restaurants and shopping nearby in Liberty, but the hotel prices are just a bit kinder. We stayed in a lovely hotel though not as nice as Branson and the Lodge of the Ozarks! Kearney is famous…

Civil war history

Last year when we were traveling in the mid-west we stumbled across the burial site of Jesse James – you can read that here. So this year when we were in Pennsylvania I thought it would be fun to visit one of their cemeteries. This old cemetery has some fascinating stones – some too old…