I am not much of a teacher but I agreed to teach the upper elementary class at the UU church on the condition that I could do so with my good friend Barbara Cameron. She agreed and we set out with our Mystery UUs curricula. Our first subjects: John & Abigail Adams. Barbara won the kids' trust by giggling at the photo of Mrs. Adams, saying she looked rather "handsome." It was, admittedly, an unflattering image of the first second lady of the United States.
As we were brainstorming as to how we might portray this early American, influential, very scholarly couple, Barb could not get the Addams family tune out of her head and she suggested we re-write the lyrics to that famous tune to suit our own ends. We were laughing and kidding around about it when Zoey, shown in the photo with us here, says not quite under her breath, "Adults are weird!" You're right Zoey.
We did re-write the lyrics and Keith Plumley plucked out the tune on the piano while Barb, the upper elementary and junior high kids, and I sang our little ditty on a recent Sunday morning. The congregation was challenged to guess who our mystery UU characters were. There were many correct answers and some almost correct answers that were nearly as funny as our little ditty. Oh, and the ever-resourceful Kathleen Anderson provided the get ups to authenticate our skit. Just goes to show you, you might see just about anything at the UU church!
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