Sharp diary 1918 page 238. Friday 23 August 1918 - Shooting Creek, Virginia
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Friday 23rd of August 1918
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Decide to go on to Shooting Creek in the afternoon the Thomas’s undertaking to put us up. In the morning we pack and take down several more songs from our hostess and her mother in law. At 3 p.m. we set out in the motor driven by young Mr Cannady and accompanied by his mother for Shooting Creek. On arrival at the Thomas’s find they have changed their mind and taken it upon themselves to make other arrangements — Maud to go to the Pres[byterian] Mission, I to a cabin hard by! This amazed me very much the more especially as the Thomas girls were talkative officious people, mountain born but aping town girls! However there was nothing for it but to accept the situation at any rate for the night. I had dinner at the Mission and then slept — very uncomfortably — at the Boyds. It is clear however, that Shooting Creek, despite its reputation for roughness etc will be no use to us as the residents are all people of position. Apparently they have made so much money by brewing Moonshine Whiskey that they have gone up in the world — or is it down? Shooting Creek is one of the most beautiful pieces of scenery we have yet struck.Location
USA : Viginia : Shooting Creek [0,0]
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