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when other members discussed
the colder temperatures of the
original operating room, the hairs
on the back of his neck stood up. He
instantly connected a memory of
taking his visiting cousin, Guy Sam
Kemp, a lieutenant colonel Navy
Seal, to see the Post Museum book
of Veterans. When they arrived
unannounced at the Museum, Guy
Sam found the huge book open to

Old Post Sanitarium his own father’s page, a sailor in
WWII and co-captain of the 1936
gas station attendant asked her to naturally neighbor one another. Post football team. Nobody in Post
pull up, to which she responded, They celebrated the fact at the could possibly explain that, but it
“I can go forward, and I can go Post Centennial in 2007 when they makes for a great Johnny story!
backward, but I can’t go up!” joined to form
the largest
In 1957, the only child of C.W. Post breakfast table,
and wealthiest woman in the world serving free
at that time, “Marjorie Merriweather Post cereals,
Post attended the 50th anniversary Borden milk,
of Post and publicly unveiled a new and bananas
statue of her father during the worst for all.
sandstorm in history,” recalls Nancy
Kemp. Marjorie built the famous Johnny now
mansion Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, proudly
Florida from 1924-1927, donating serves on the
the property to the National Park board for the
Service upon her death in 1973, Garza County
hoping it could be used for state Historical
visits or as a Winter White House. Museum,
Donald Trump bought it for $10 and he had
million in 1985 as his private home, never taken
because it was too expensive for the the curious
State of Florida to maintain. rumors of the
old sanitarium
Even today, the citizens of turned
Post and visitors enjoy creative museum too
commemorative events. Nancy finds seriously. But
it ironic that the cereal-born town at a recent
of Post and the milk-producing board meeting,
community of Borden County

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