’s Mills, Virginia
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Monday 6th of May 1918
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Breakfasted early, settled up and caught 8.45 for Lynchburg then booked to Tye River, arriving at 12.45. Here we found that earlier[?] train had gone and no other train till tomorrow. So chartered a motor from Mr Parr the store keeper and drove to Massie’s Mills — $5. Rather a squash for 3 people on one seat and it wanted careful packing to get ourselves & suitcases, type- writer into this crazy contraption. Road bad part of the way & good the rest — punctured a tyre which however was mended pretty quickly. Found Massie’s Mills a very beautiful little village at the bottom of a basin enclosed by hills and found quite nice rooms at Mrs Bayrd’s Virginia House. At first we thought we could get songs here but soon found that one half of the population were industrials aiming at gentility, the other half African. So decided to leave our comfortable quarters early tomorrow for Nash, 10 miles further into the mountains and out of reach of everything — even the telephone! Weather stiflingly hot, particularly when the breeze which had made things passable died down in the evening. Bedrooms full of beetles, may bugs, moths & other flying vermin! We ought to have gone to Arrington, next station to Tye River, where fast trains stop & where there is a macadam road.Location
USA : Viginia : Massie's Mills [0,0]
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