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Geniece Marcum - My Mother's Garden

A family favorite Mother's Day Story, last reposted on 2010-03-22 17:29:18
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By Geniece Leftwich Marcum

My mother's garden lay on the southerly side of our old house between the edge of the yard and a dense woodland which belonged to an unsociable uncle.

I found little of interest in this garden in spring with its neat orderly rows Poppa and his trusty mule had laid off.

Nor in early summer when the labor of Mama and my older siblings resulted in flourishing stick beans, hearty red tomatoes, sweet corn, and green onions.

Ah, but when fall came, when the last of the vegetables were about all gathered from this plot of ground, this was my favorite time.

Morning glory vines that had escaped the hoe ran riot among the rows and blossoms in every color would come laughing to greet me and turn that corner of my world into a rainbow.

Geniece Leftwich Marcum




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2014-05-11 - Bellview Community, Metcalfe County, KY - Photo from . Bellview Community, Metcalfe Co., KY
And now, an encore/encore voyage: A photo which went around the world, in World War II is going out again. Housewife and mother, Addie Turner Leftwich was caught here by the photographer while proudly showing off the new green beans growing in her early spring garden. Although she never traveled far from her home near Edmonton, Kentucky during in her lifetime, this photo of her covered much of the world and back in her place. Made during the days of World War II, the photo was mailed to each of her four sons, Robert, Russell, Ray and Rondyl, then serving in such places as California, Philippine Islands, German occupied France and the China Burma India Theatre of War. The same photo is now beginning it's third journey, this time via Columbia Magazine on it's way around the world again. Addie Turner Leftwich was the daughter of Joseph Alexander Turner of Adair County, who wrote to various county newspapers in 1898 under the pen name of Paul Revere. -Geniece Leftwich Marcum.

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