Happy Birthday to … the 35th State in the Union
With Grandpa and Grandma, here in their hometown …
With Aunt Judy to visit and more company on the way …
With homegrown cherries in an ice-cream-topped cobbler …
With perfect June weather, a blend of spring and summer …
With a glimpse of the oriole and the air filled with bird songs …
With memories of the Parade of Flags in boy scouts 50 years ago …
With thoughts of Chuck Yeager, Daniel Staddon :), Andrew Rowan, Otto Koning, Dawson Trottman, Mary Lou Retton, Don Knotts and Stonewall Jackson …
With appreciation for fresh rhubarb and golden delicious apples …
With gratefulness to God for natural and supernatural blessings …
With hearts bowed before Him …
We rejoice today, in the 150th anniversary of the state rippled with mountains from end to end …
WEST VIRGINIA!
Happy Birthday, West Virginia!
Oh those hills,
beautiful hills,
how I love those West Virginia Hills!
If o’er sea or land I roam,
still I think of happy home,
and my friends among those West Virginia Hills!
So many happy memories!