Sharp diary 1918 page 242. Tuesday 27 August 1918 - Meadows of Dan, Virginia
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Tuesday 27th of August 1918
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Ran up against Mr Adams the motor driver at the post office and arranged with him to take us up to the Meadows of Dan for 10 dollars & we started at 9 o’clock in his Ford. We must have gone up at least 2000 feet — for our house we stay at is 3480 feet up — over the worst & most dangerous mountain road I have ever seen. We constantly got out & walked over especially bad patches. At one very bad corner, with a 700 f[ee]t fall on the left, he asked us to get out as he was afraid it might topple over! The rains had recently washed out the road and had he known this Adams would not have attempted the trip. However we arrived at 11.30, 2_ hours for 18 miles and put up at the Byerly’s. He is an old engine driver, a typical Yankee, hollow cheeks, nasal drawl, great talker & braggard. She a talker too, a small woman reminding us of Miss both of them over 70. Her mother Mrs Spangler, 94, lives with them. After lunch, rest & tea go out & find country very bad for our purpose — a large plateau with rolling meadows and comfortable frame houses. Call on a Mr Reynolds & his wife. He claims relationship with Sir Joshua says it is a tradition in the family & that several members have a gift for drawing. 1 He is very intelligent & a good talker with a wide vocabulary. We stay a couple of hours because of a thunderstorm but get no songs.Location
USA : Viginia : Meadows of Dan [0,0]
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