June 30, 2008> 2:36 PM
reunion '08 Saturday was the family reunion we usually go to every year. It's a combination of the descendants of my GGrandfather, Joseph Creech, in Harlan, Kentucky. It takes place at Kingdom Come State Park near Cumberland, which is Harlan County - beautiful place. Of course Joe Alec (what he was called) has been dead since 1940, but now his two surviving children, my Great Aunts (photo on the right there) Rhema (88) and Beulah (90) are continuing the reunion tradition. Apparently it has been going on for 38 years. Lots of good food, children running around, talk about family history, and of course, singing - mostly old hymns. It's usually a good time. I usually blog about this when I go. This time I took a little movie of Rhema (the most talkative of the Matriarchal sisters) talking a bit at the end, as everyone is about to leave - then Beulah gets a couple of words in there too - classic stuff. Some of you will have to listen carefully, and perhaps a couple of times, to understand her accent - serious old Kentucky mountains here folks.
On the way out, I decided to try to find one of the first houses I remember us living in when I was a wee child (between 1 and 3 I guess). That's it there (I'm pretty sure) on the left - in Cumberland, Kentucky - still Harlan County. I do remember living there a bit - next door, you can't see it, was Mrs. Beard's house, my babysitter for a while. She used to fix me what I called "kid's coffee" - about 90% milk and sugar and a little coffee. I must have thought that was cool. I also remember choking on a lifesaver near her front doorway, and my Mom turning me upside down and smacking my back until it came out - I lived! Just in case you were worried there. The other photo is of a spring water outlet pipe located on the side of the road in Bell County. It was set up years ago. People just stop there and fill up their jugs with free, pure, mountain spring water. There are a few of these around in the mountains. McKenzie and I stopped there and got us some water. Good stuff. OK, that's it for our little adventure. Peace.
Oh, I took a bunch of other photos too and uploaded them to my Flickr page - you can see those here.
June 30, 2008
> 2:36 PM
Saturday was the family reunion we usually go to every year. It's a combination of the descendants of my GGrandfather, Joseph Creech, in Harlan, Kentucky. It takes place at Kingdom Come State Park near Cumberland, which is Harlan County - beautiful place. Of course Joe Alec (what he was called) has been dead since 1940, but now his two surviving children, my Great Aunts (photo on the right there) Rhema (88) and Beulah (90) are continuing the reunion tradition. Apparently it has been going on for 38 years. Lots of good food, children running around, talk about family history, and of course, singing - mostly old hymns. It's usually a good time. I usually blog about this when I go. This time I took a little movie of Rhema (the most talkative of the Matriarchal sisters) talking a bit at the end, as everyone is about to leave - then Beulah gets a couple of words in there too - classic stuff. Some of you will have to listen carefully, and perhaps a couple of times, to understand her accent - serious old Kentucky mountains here folks.
On the way out, I decided to try to find one of the first houses I remember us living in when I was a wee child (between 1 and 3 I guess). That's it there (I'm pretty sure) on the left - in Cumberland, Kentucky - still Harlan County. I do remember living there a bit - next door, you can't see it, was Mrs. Beard's house, my babysitter for a while. She used to fix me what I called "kid's coffee" - about 90% milk and sugar and a little coffee. I must have thought that was cool. I also remember choking on a lifesaver near her front doorway, and my Mom turning me upside down and smacking my back until it came out - I lived! Just in case you were worried there. The other photo is of a spring water outlet pipe located on the side of the road in Bell County. It was set up years ago. People just stop there and fill up their jugs with free, pure, mountain spring water. There are a few of these around in the mountains. McKenzie and I stopped there and got us some water. Good stuff. OK, that's it for our little adventure. Peace.
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