— Lexington, Kentucky
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Document date
Monday 3rd of September 1917
Transcription Notes
We pack & settle up affairs in the morning and then take the 1.14 for Lexington, a very weary & hot journey with two changes and a long wait at Corbin — a very detestable place! It is Labor Day. I went to the P[ost[ O[ffice] to find it closed and a notice posted up to the effect that it was Labor Day Sept[ember] 4th etc. The inaccuracy one meets with in this country is just marvellous. It is no wonder that the postmaster made such a muddle over my letters! We stay the night at the Phoenix Hotel quite a good one, like the Gibson at Cincinnati — the best one we have struck in the South except Grove Park. Have a decent dinner, nicely cooked & served. Then proceed to hunt up Luther Shadoin. After a long hunt I run him to earth and persuade him to come to my room where he gave me excellent songs Golden Vanity & Edwin of the Lowlands Low — both of which he had learned from his mother.Location
USA : Kentucky : Pineville [36.76203,-83.6949176]
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