Echoes From The Attic and Poems, Mrs. Rhetta Kennedy, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by Don Johnson, Feb. 2001
Typed by Belford Carver
Written by by Edna F. Campbell
Copyrighted by Edna F. Campbell
With special thanks to her family for permission to use her works.

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THIS PATIO IS REALLY HERS!

Mrs. Rhetta Kennedy wanted a patio to enhance her home.  She decided the most 
logical and sure way was to make it herself.  She obtained old chimney bricks 
and with the assistance of a 17-year-old neighbor, Jennifer Lott, she lay the 
bricks one-by-one, mixing the mortar as she went along.  This amateur bricks-
mason found it took a bit of engineering to create the desired pattern but she 
and Jennifer kept their noses to the ground until completed.

Rhetta did not stop there.  She wanted the patio attractive and unique.  Again 
she lay bricks to create an old-fashioned well replica, complete with hanging 
bucket.  This she surrounded with foliage.  Another project was underground 
lines for effective lighting with gas.

Landscaping presented another challenge.  She started off with azaleas, the small 
dwarf type.  She added numerous tropical plants for the proper blending for the 
patio, pool side and adjoining brick home.

Patio hospitality now includes wrought-iron chairs and tables and bird baths.  
Potted plants center brick columns near the entrance.  Palms and elephant ears 
lend authenticity.

Mrs. Kennedy is the former Loretta Schum, the wife of Curtis Kennedy and the mother 
of three children.  The Kennedy home is about 2 * miles west of Ponchatoula on the 
Springfield Road.  In addition to her household duties, Mrs. Kennedy operates a 
beauty shop and is a realty agent.

(From ECHOES FROM THE ATTIC, VIII, 1974, by Edna Campbell)

(Pic of the patio)