— Harrisonburg
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Document date
Thursday 18th of April 1918
Transcription Notes
Pack in the morning, write some letters, settle up and leave for Harrisonburg by the 12.30, arriving 2.30. Get very nice rooms at The Kavanagh, unpack, have some tea and then call on a Miss Martha Davis. Find her a comfortable looking middle-aged spinster quite ready to help us but not able to be of any great assistance. She has done very little collecting as most of her finds were traditions in her own family — including the Robin Hood’s as I had suspected. She tells us however that this valley is almost wholly peopled by Dutch or Germans and that we shall have to get into the mountains proper to find the Scotch-Irish as she calls them. We then do a little shopping at a very decent grocer’s shop and return to hotel where our trunks have by now arrived. After dinner try to get on by phone to Revd Ellis. He however is out and Mrs E promises to ask him to phone us in the morning. We patronize the movies again after dinner, have drinks at the drug store afterwards and then to bed. Weather very fine & warm but less stuffy here than at Woodstock.Location
USA : Viginia : Woodstock [0,0]
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