For several years, the children of Odyssey have gathered at Whit’s End to paint Easter eggs, while listening to Connie Kendall read Matthew’s account of the Easter story. The eggs are then used for the annual Easter Egg Hunt at McAllister Park on Easter morning.

This year was no different—except for one small miscommunication. Harlow Doyle mistook the painted eggs for stolen endangered alligator eggs and threw them all into Trickle Lake. Realizing his mistake, Harlow led the campaign to collect and boil new eggs. The following evening, the kids of Odyssey turned out again, armed with markers, paints and stickers to recreate all 500 eggs.

During the late-night festivities, a snoozing Eugene Meltsner was also decorated. As Bernard Walton commented, “Eugene is probably the biggest egghead of all.” John Avery Whittaker assured us, however, that Eugene would not be worth points if found during the egg hunt.