Re: Fw: The Rolling Hills>Dawn

[Guest guest]

Hi Dawn

This is rural Wabaunsee County, Alma, Kansas. I grew up here and it

doesn't get more rural than this. The road leads south to the farm

where I grew up and 3 generations of my family lived, all farmers. We

left the farm in the mid 50's and sold the ground when my Dad's heart

was not strong enough to farm any more. We kept 145 acres of meadow

(that's where I'm standing) that my Dad bought in the late 40's and I'm

hanging on to it. I hated that farm as a child and couldn't wait to

leave it, now I marvel at the unique quietness and comfort it gives me.

I have picked up 9 pickup loads of rock from the sides of those roads

and dragged them back to my house 15 miles to the north and laid up rock

walls and flower gardens around our home. Those hills are solid rock

too, some as big as a car and right beside it, fields of fertile soil.

A farmers roots run deep in Kansas.

Many people have ask what the rolling flinthills are. Now you know.

And yes, western Kansas really is flat but eastern Kansas is the home of

the flinthills. Alma is known as the town of native stone because

almost all of it's buildings are built of native limestone. We have

almost every kind of rock known to man in this area as the glaciers

pushed everything down this direction and just let it roll into those

beautiful hills. They are a sight to behold and the older I get, the

more I love them.

Sally

[Guest guest]

Sally,

Thanks so much for that lovely description.

Jane