EDAVILLE is where one goes,
Riding narrow rails when it snows…
Christmas displays
Along rights of way,
all lit up in lights!
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The “North Pole Express” is running,
All over the country by cunning…
Railroad lines
Wanting happier times,
Santa they know is coming!
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Look in the papers to see,
Where Christmas trains are running shortly…
It’s worth paying
For children’s playing,
Making positive memory!
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–Jonathan Caswell
CHRISTMAS TRAINS!!!
A FAMILY TRADITION STILL
Is running (that’s EDAVILLE)…
Those great Christmas lights
On snowy cold nights,
For generations have given a thrill.
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They have their version of
The “North Pole Express” to love…
At “edaville.com”
The info is on,
It’s a good ride to be dreaming of!
–Jonathan Caswell
(A bit of unrequested promotion on my part…Special trains run most of the year!)
AUTUMN IS HUMMING
Two pumpkins grace the entrance,
Either side of the door…
Out in the flowerbeds
Planting mums is in store.
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The price has gotten low enough
That even we, the poor…
Can buy mums for the windowsill,
Away from winter’s roar.
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The Santa trains are being prepared,
At EDAVILLE, things will shine…
Will the Grafton and Upton
Do something in kind?
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Maple trees and aspens
Are oft the first to turn…
Glowing foggy mornings,
Helping the mist off-burn.
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Soon I’ll put a snow shovel
Back inside the car…
Remembering the times when
I couldn’t get very far.
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Oktoberfest is coming
To our Douglas town…
I hope we’ll have some dollars
To spend when it comes ’round!!!!
–Jonathan Caswell
WHAT TRAINS?
A friend asked about EDAVILLE,
He thought I could use a thrill…
He’s wanting knowing
If the train’s still going
Around on it’s fruit-bog circle.
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I’m afraid he was dismayed,
I could not give what he craved…
What’s a train, let me see
In distant memory,
OH YEAH, where I frequently played!
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But that seems so long ago
Since I LOOKED at one, ya know…
Of my time most
Is spent on these posts,
With this is my mind enthralled.
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So today, I went and looked up
The subject of his interrupt…
EDAVILLE still runs
For the kids and funds,
I’m sorry my knowledge wasn’t up.
–Jonathan Caswell
Information on the 2-foot-gauge train and activities at EDAVILLE can be found at www.edaville.com, which IS INDEED RUNNING AGAIN THIS SEASON!!!!!
(www.edaville.com)
COME TO EDAVILLE
(Tune of” “Christmas is Coming”)
Come back to EDAVILLE,
Before it’s all closed down…
How will the kids remember
When it’s not around.
If you haven’t got a train set,
A train picture will do…
If you don’t have a train picture…
EDAVILLE IS THROUGH!
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They’re selling the property
For ten million bucks,
If we had the moula*
We’d buy some railroad trucks…
If you haven’t got the moula*
An old postcard will do…
If you haven’t got an old postcard,
EDAVILLE IS THROUGH!
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In this Christmas season
Trains are running late,
If you don’t get down to ride
It will be too late…
If you can’t get a train ride
The carousel will do,
If you can’t ride something…
EDAVILLE IS THROUGH.
—Jonathan Caswell
NOTE: *moula is slang…for money!
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By the Mighty Mumford 