[or-roots] Jeremiah Shea's Roses

[Verdena Veelle]

Cecil, sometimes I think there is just too much "improvement" going on in these parts.  For instance the nice rich, fertile soil on flat land being put into houses or as Burl Ives referred to them "pretty boxes".  There is a place for houses and a place for growing food (and flowers) but money seems to the main motive now.
Verdena
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  From: Cecil Houk 
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  Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 5:59 PM
  Subject: [or-roots] Jeremiah Shea's Roses


  Jeremiah Shea's Roses

  Not to steel Walt's thunder, BUT...

  When we lived in the Shea house at Foster, there were many roses in front of that house.  If you look closely at the photo at:

  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cchouk/rulaford/3/foster-house0.jpg

  You can see them along the wooden walkway between the house and the highway.  On either side (along the front edge of the property), there were "rambling roses"; red.  I can't swear that Mr. Shea planted these roses, but I'd like to think so.

  One day the Highway Department "improved" HWY 20 by bull dozing the rambling roses.

  I've not seen any of the roses that were there in the 1940's since.

  Cecil

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