Cecil Sharp Diary 1918

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Thursday 8th of August 1918

Transcription Notes

Finding that we can get rooms at Crockett Springs we catch the 9 train and sit in it a whole hour before it consented to move on arriving at Shawsville at 11. Then we motored 5 very rough miles to Crockett Springs a large hotel on the model of Natural Bridge but smaller. It was very full so we were allotted two very bad attic rooms very hot & without fly-screens! We lunched — very indifferently — and after tea walked out to see the country but found it quite unsuitable for collecting — as we had suspected from our observations on the way hither. The weather was very little if at all cooler than at Roanoke so we decide to move back tomorrow to Rockymount, Franklin Co[unty], where it was our original intention to go. In the evening a group of women bombard us and make us sing to them. They were rather nice one of them — name unknown — remembering me at St Louis — she is the librarian there. Another — a Miss Leeds — knew of me as a dance- teacher — such is fame! We stayed out till midnight in order to allow our rooms to cool down a bit before we went to bed. This they did to some extent[?] and we had a fairly cool night.

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USA : Viginia : Crockett Springs [0,0]

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