By Sue Tepas
Sunday, May 13th, is Mother’s Day and if most of the ideas discussed at the Art Fair — House Tour General Meeting March 14th become reality, attending mothers can avoid any cooking that day and have a marvelous time. Mothers will begin their special day gifted with potted plants or flowers the children have purchased at the Washington Heights Neighbors Plant and Flower Sale on Saturday, May 12. Fathers and children will have arrived at the intersection of Waterman and Laurel between 10 and 4 to make their choice from the selection on George and Rose Storey’s front porch, 5792 Waterman. While the children were shopping for Mother, fathers enjoyed coffee and donuts provided by the Boy Scouts.
A Neighborhood Pancake Breadfast benefitting The Paper will begin at 9:00 A.M. Sunday in the yard of Joe and Chris Lange’s home, 6175 Kingsbury. For $1.00 per person, there’ll be all the orange juice, pancakes and syrup, and coffee the family can eat. After church or hours of scurrying around to get everything ready for the Art Fair — House Tour opening at noon, the Boy Scouts will once again provide lunch for the whole family from 12:00 to 5:00 in Rick and Joan Bender’s back yard at 6150 Kingsbury. Besides Hot dogs, Polish sausages and Pepsi Cola, fathers of the Scouts will add something new and welcome to the adult menu this year — beer. Properly fortified, the family has an afternoon full of adventure before it.
The Art Fair will stretch down both sides of the 6100 block of Kingsbury, and art and crafts will be exhibited on both the sidewalk and the street side of the tree lawns on each side of the street. Susie Roach, Pat Kohn, and Anna Busch report a trend toward a large number of exhibitors this year. The range of art and craft styles will surely lead to a family conference on just what to buy. Be sure to search out Betty Klinefelter’s display of Children’s Art, an always surprising indication of young neighborhood talent. Art competition winners names will be prominently posted as soon as the judging is completed so that a second look or perhaps a purchase can occur.
The House Tour will probably be the most fun for Mother, for she has a chance to examine especially attractive homes basically much like her own and see what each owner has done to make her home a special expression of the family’s unique personality. Gee Stuart and Marge Weir, House Tour co-chairwomen, are currently attempting to schedule as diverse a range of homes as possible so that everyone, no matter what their decorating preferences, will find an idea or two for their own use. House Tour tickets, still only $1.00, will, for the second year, include a Washington University mini-bus ride from house to house.
Need a rest, a cup of coffee and a piece of cake by now? The Rosedale-Skinker Men’s Liberation Movement, headed by Mike Harleman, will provide these this year, with tables and chairs in mid-street about half way down Kingsbury. All proceeds will go to pay off the Rosedale-Skinker balance at Union Electric for the old alley lights.
In this, the 100th anniversary year of the breakup of the old Kingsbury Farm, the Residential Service History Committee will publish The Neighborhood History, available at all homes on the House Tour and at the Art Fair for only $1.00. Buy Mother a copy and the entire family will enjoy reading of our neighborhood’s beginnings, perhaps having some stories of their own to add to the growing fund of neighborhood information, past and present.
Mother’s been looking for something a little different? The Neighborhood School, based at Grace Methodist Church, may have it at their Flea Market on Rosedale. Be sure to check with them; in this diverse neighborhood, one person’s treasure is another’s white elephant, and Chris Wright and Ellen Lowenstein report that all proceeds will go for school scholarships.
The lovely afternoon is over and everyone’s getting tired and hungry — must Mother really go home and fix dinner for the family? She doesn’t have to — not if the family takes advantage of the Washington Heights Fund-Raising Barbeque, starting at 5:00 P.M. in the yard of Horace and Anna Busch, 5765 Pershing. There’ll be barbecued ribs and chicken, potato salad, cole slaw, spaghetti, soda pop and beer. Then, tired, full and happy, the family will go home with their treasures and memories of a really special Mother’s Day.
Will Mother’s “Super Sunday” become reality? Only with the cooperation and help of all our neighbors. Everything above needs workers to make it a success. To volunteer your time and/or labor, contact these people for these purposes:
Publicity — Cathy Hammond, 721-5779 after 5; ideas for angles or gimmicks to get widespread publicity are welcome — now!
House Sitters for House Tour; 1 1/2 hour stints; Chris Lange, 863-2164.
Rosedale-Skinker Cake Sellers; Mike Harleman, 725-8929; men only need apply. Volunteer Cake Bakers; equal opportunity donations.
Washington Heights Flower Sellers; Rose Story, 727-1727 (Saturday, May 12).
Originally published in The Paper, April 1973.
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