Sharp diary 1918 page 275. Sunday 29 September 1918 - Burnsville
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Sunday 29th of September 1918
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After breakfast wrote 2 or 3 letters to Miss Gilman, to the postmaster at Barbourville — and then walked out to Mitchell Town to Mrs Becky’s. There we found Big Becky, old Mrs Polly & Mrs Hannah while Mrs Effie came in shortly afterwards. We talked and 2 or 3 of them sang us some good songs and we spent a very pleasant 2 or 3 hours and very profitable ones, too, as the songs were excellent. I took many photographs of them — 14 in all — and then we returned to lunch. After tea called at the Jasper Robertson’s and found him at home after a heavy week’s peddling of a patent medicine containing 17 different herbs and being good for the nerves! He is a typical Scotchman and sang me 3 or 4 moralizing songs — all very fine ones. We promised to return next Sunday. The weather which has been very cold, unsettled and wet nearly all the time we have been here — 2_ weeks — looks as though it were going to improve. Today was a typical Autumn day, bright, hot in the sun but cool in the shade. The trees are beginning to turn colour in earnest and the forests are looking lovely.Location
USA : North Carolina : Burnsville [35.9173357,-82.300961]
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