— Afton
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Document date
Monday 22nd of April 1918
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Had early breakfast; finished packing, settled up at Hotel and caught 10 train for Afton. When paying my ac[count] Mr Geary the manager told me the greater part of this county was Dutch and pacifist, that they were secretly against the war though they did not dare openly to avow their opinion. We changed at Elkton, a wretched little place with a "resort" hotel facing & close to the mountains, stayed there an hour and finally got to Afton at 1.45, eating our lunch in the train. We then put our suit cases in a motor and drove to Afton to find the Hotel shut up! Why they had wired us yesterday that they could accommodate us when they knew they couldn’t, was and remains a mystery! However, we got rooms at Mrs Robinson’s, not very grand ones, but passable. Rested, had tea and then called on the Corbett’s. He is an orchardist — grows apples and peaches — and an Englishman of about my age with a regular Corbett face. She is Mrs Glenn’s sister and very much like her. What they told us and what we had heard elsewhere leads us to fear that the people are too mixed up with the Dutch for us to get songs here. Call on an old lady Mrs Goldberg whom we soon find is Dutch! Weather fine but very cold and we shiver in our rooms after supper. I write to Mrs Aldrich.Location
USA : Viginia : Harrisonburg [0,0]
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