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I got delayed with a GPS malfunction (user error) but we finally got there and were met by Rachel and her son, Evran, and her mother Liza.
After the late lunch, Carolyn and Aaron had to move on toward home and I was invited to stay in their “air B&B” room which has served as a guest room for a variety of people since Lisa’s (parents’) house was built around 1930. Evran gave me a tour of the Sculpture Gardens on the grounds of the former Patterson School just up the road, and then showed me around the house and grounds where Rachel used to make fresh goat cheese and where some farming is still done on a small scale. I got some work done organizing these trip photographs and then enjoyed a very quiet and comfortable sleep.
After this unofficial visit (walking pass the locked entry gate), I drove down along Beaver Creek (yes?) and got to Zelma’s place where we talked non-stop for a few hours about family discoveries and stories and enjoyed a plentiful buffet meals enhanced by their family Easter gathering the day before. It was a pleasure finally meet and talk with Zelma’s son, Richard, who offered to scan the box of family research that her Uncle Roger Plaster shared with her before his passing some time ago. Uncle Roger had talked with me about the Enochville Plaster farm when I visited there in the 1980s and I attribute my interest in that “homeplace” there to his own great interest and stories written about life there.
Unfortunately, we didn’t manage to get a group pictures but it was a lot of fun, especially with the extra family dynamics of Richard being present. I finally got to Charlotte around dinner time and spent some more time figuring out how to make these web page “galleries” with my WordPress software. They are now “posted” and can be edited and enhanced at will, or at least as time permits.
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