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A party off the old block - Area has a sense of being connected to - neighbors and kids
July 21, 2001
The Kansas City Star
Kansas City, Missouri

Six-year-old Grace Bullington toted her box turtle up and down the street, showing him off to everybody at the block party.

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This summer's play was the most elaborate ever, a celebration of the 1960s called "A Sixties Kaleidoscope."

Three girls with updo's, wearing former bridesmaids' dresses, lip-synced to "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." Several boys presented speeches by John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. A cardboard television with tinfoil ears displayed still images of Ed Sullivan, Walter Cronkite and the Mickey Mouse Club.

In a major costume change, the youngsters emerged as flower children to a Cowsills recording of "Hair." At one point, everybody, including all the adults, jumped up to dance the twist.

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