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 MUNGER HOUSE

1/26/2017

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 MUNGER HOUSE
 by Donna Penley

If this old house could talk, what stories would be told!
An’ I know it’s voice would quaver, since it is so old.

But if this house could talk, it’d raise it’s voice with grace
Tell us it’s story.  “I was finished in ’68.

“Ol’ Darius Munger built me -- built me strong an’ true.
I was the first real house in Wichita long before our city grew.

They thought I was a wonder because I had two floors,
An’ I had real glass windows, an’ strudy, heavy doors.

Came th’ spring of ‘68,  the settlers was supposed t’ leave,
But Darius was strong-minded and he stayed -- the Indians did aggrieve.

He decided to make some dough, and the bedrooms he did fill.
They say the upstairs slept twelve people -- they called me a ‘hotel’.”

It stood through blazin’ summers.  Freezin’ winters did abound --
Now you and I can enjoy it’s charm, where it sits in
OLD COWTOWN!

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5/24/2017 13:22:55

I really enjoy reading your stories. It's also amazing how you convert them into literary masterpieces. You must've experienced a lot of things during your younger years. This is the reason why I always listen to the older generation. They have a lot of story to tell, filled with moral values and lessons.

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    Donna Penley is a Cowgirl Poet with deep Kansas roots who has been writing cowboy poetry for over twenty five years. She is a real Cowgirl and an ex-barrel racer.

    Donna writes about all phases of cowboy life, with lots of humor woven in. Her poem Carrie Nation hangs in the Carrie Nation Museum in Medicine Lodge, Kansas.

    As a benefit for the blind and sight impaired, Great Empire Broadcasting produced a cassette tape of her poetry and distributed it to all Kansas public libraries (
    No Preservatives Added : a collection of cowboy poetry).

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