Volunteer Luncheon at Morgan House

Friday, April 21st, we took our volunteers on a short trip to the Morgan House in Dublin, Ohio. The Morgan House is named after Morgan's Raiders. General Morgan, Confederate Army, lead a group of raiders north into Ohio. They stayed for a night in the log cabin of the Weavers and on their land. Morgans raiders were captured a short time later. The house was moved to the current location and expanded. Today, it is a large gift shop and restaurant with several dining rooms and an extensive collection of goods for sale, including food, clothing, kitchen items, household items, jewelry, and even furniture.

Sixteen of us went on the trip, but there are many more volunteers. Our volunteers do a variety of jobs that maks our Young@Heart program possible. These jobs include cooking, serving, setting tables, making table decorations, signups for trips, registration for the luncheons (name tag table), sound system and driving for the luncheons and day trips. We could not do our Young@Heart without the volunteers. 

Andrew drove our bus over to the Morgan House in Dublin. This is about an hour and a half drive.

The Morgan House is a large multi room building. The original log cabin can be seen in the second photo.

Our group first shopped through the gift shops. These were situated in several rooms of the building and provided a wide variety of goods.

Of course, many of the guys were really just interested in eating the food. As I've heard elsewhere, if your going to make food, make it good! And the Morgan House serves GOOD FOOD!

One or our thoughts for doing this little trip was to see if it was appropriate for a Day Trip for our Young@Heart group. Because of the good number of steps between rooms and the dining rooms, we decided against this. However, I would certainly recommend  this for ladies and couples, who are up to a few steps. Check out their website for further information. Morgan House

Redeemed Quartet - April 11, YAH Luncheon

We enjoyed the gospel quartet music of the "Redeemed Quartet" for our April 2017 Luncheon. This quartet is made up of two sets of brothers aged 19 to 22. They come from Southeastern Indiana where their fathers are pastors. The quartet is comprised of lead Ben Duncan, his brother Nate - tenor, baritone Caleb Koble, and his brother, Josh - base. 

The brothers work together flipping houses, when they are not singing. This means they are their own bosses and gives them flexibility to sing on a variety of venues and different times and dates. If anyone needs a home in southeastern Indiana, their first house is completed and available!

We had lots of great comments and requests to bring them back. I will certainly see if we can arrange for that to happen again, next year.

I didn't record the program, as we normally do, because this kind of program does not work well that way. However, I did video record most of the music, so rather than just listen, you can see them! Check out the videos attached to this Blog.

Lisa and her team provided an outstanding meal. She was very short handed but the results didn't reflect that. We had meatloaf, mashed potatoes, coleslaw and finished with a banana/pineapple cream pie. I will try to include some of the recipes in the newsletter.

Now, for the quartet videos:

Day Trip - April 7, 2017 - Away in a Basement

This is our first Day Trip of the 2017 season. This was an easy trip with a short drive down to Springboro and LaComedia. We enjoy the shows at LaComedia and they rarely disappoint. A big plus is the large luncheon buffet.

We had a decent number of people for this trip with 18 going down on the bus and another 5 driving on their own. We met at the church, then boarded the bus at 10:15 for the short drive down to LaComedia.

We're met at the theater by a hostess with Cookies! However, I stash the cookies for energy on the return trip. :-)

This time we got tables a lot higher up, near the level where we enter the dining room. Actually, the only downside to this seating location is the fact that we need to carry our food up a good number of steps. Fortunately, no one tripped and all of the food made it safely to our tables (and tummies).

From the standpoint of viewing the play, I liked our location. It worked well. Nancy and I and a friend where located a bit to the side, and I found the speakers weren't ideal for this location, but the remainder of our group were located face on to the stage.

The food was great. They do a good buffet with a huge selection of meats, veggies, etc. We were served our salads prior to going down to the buffet. And our Christmas Cake after the meal. 

The play was a typical Church Basement Ladies play and musical. In fact, most of the performers where the same, except for the pastor. This time the theme was about preparation for the annual Christmas Program. The play was not a Christmas program but was about the activities of the ladies and pastor in preparation for the program, so it didn't seem like a Christmas program for us viewers. I was pleased with that. There was an interesting romantic twist to this program that was unexpected. However, I didn't feel that this was one of their better programs. In fact, I would say it  was my least favorite Church Basement Ladies play.

I took a number of photos prior of the play. We are asked not to take photos during the play and I comply. Lighting is terrible for photography but I think I got some decent shots, although some were a bit fuzzy. Check them out below.

As always, you can click any image to see a larger version!