Making the home a welcoming place

Oh, give me a home, where the buffalo roam, where the deer and the antelope play, where seldom is heard, a discouraging word....

These words in the song, “Home on the Range”, our Kansas official state song, composed by Dr. Brewster Higley in Smith County in 1873, suggests that in the chorus, after each verse the words “where seldom is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day,”…