— Pineville, Kentucky
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Document date
Monday 30th of April 1917
Transcription Notes
Early up after breakfast in bed and still feeling very feeble & shaky was motored to station — a very primitive stopping place, called Harrogate, with no buildings whatsoever — and took train to Pineville where we arrived after a wonderful mountain journey at 10 a.m. Put up at Continental Hotel, a nice place and clean as things go in the south. We are surrounded by mountains, a very pretty place with pop[ulation] 1000, a great centre for collieries in the vicinity. Rest until lunch and then again afterwards. After tea we stroll out prospecting for songs and although we get nothing hit upon a Mrs. Eliza Sharp who tells us of a good singer Mrs. Pope to go and see and promises to get her niece to sing for us on Wed[nesday] afternoon — or "evening" as she called it. She also told me of another family of Sharps kinsmen of her husband, with whom the first name James is a tradition! Hope to investigate further. Write Constance & Miss Gilman after dinner. Weather very hot, sharp thunderstorm in afternoon and another in evening.Location
USA : Tennessee : Harrogate [36.5823046,-83.6568579]
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