A quick loop around Harrisburg reveals barely a soul outside. But near Harrisburg Baptist Church, Jesse Glydewell and Steve Thornhill face the cold by rocking their weight from leg to leg and then back on their heels and turtle-necking their heads into their collars. Rather than keep warm inside, they’d be happy to park your car and walk you arm-in-arm around to the back door to Naomi Allen’s 70th birthday celebration, where the welcome is as warm as the hot chocolate.
BOONE LIFE: Small-town birthday
Neighbors, friends and relatives come together to celebrate a Harrisburg woman
Sunday, January 28, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CST;
updated 11:01 p.m. CST, Monday, February 9, 2009
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