Sharp diary 1918 page 152. Wednesday 29 May 1918 - Ronceverte
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Wednesday 29th of May 1918
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After breakfast pack our trunks and then go out prospecting but without any result — indeed we did not expect any. Then back at 11.30 to write up tunes, and do some letters etc. Wrote to Joan and Miss Barnett (Bedford). After lunch, settle up and go to station where take train (_ hour late) for Pence Springs, arriving there about 3.30. A new hotel just finished and we are the first guests to write our names in the book. A fine building commanding a great mountain view. The springs are mainly sulphur, smelling & tasting of rotten eggs. As they supply no other drinking water we wonder whether we can stand it. After a rest walk out & interview Miss Pence brother[?] of the man whose father discovered the spring and make enquiries about neighbourhood. From what she tells us & we ourselves see it ought to be a fruitful hunting ground — at any rate it will serve as a good test of W[est] V[irginia] as a folk song country. After dinner sit on porch with Manager & his wife — Mr and Mrs Paxton — whom we find were proprietors of the Richmond Hotel, Washington when we stayed there last month! Very hot indeed but the nights seem cool.Location
USA : West Viginia : Ronceverte [0,0]
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