Trick or Treat at Kroger 357

Please don't ask me to do a grand jete. Can you spot Ms. Jones? Great turnout in costume especially the Deli ! Stay tuned to find out who wins most origional and best overall.

Searching for family

We finally made it to Ireland in August and yes, I did find a grave for one genealogical branch on my fathers' side. It took a lot of hunting around. I may never see the others but, now I have a sense of the lay of the land and what kind of place they left when they came to America. A very beautiful, very empty place. Unscarred in many ways. It made it very easy to imagine what it was like in 1823.

Oakwood Cemetary

Last night, on Hollow's Eve, we took a lantern tour of the historic cemetery in downtown Raleigh. There were several live vignettes complete with Confederate garb/Period costume. There were fiddle and fife players. Ladies in a gazebo around an oil lamp reading letters from their sons in the field. A boy writing a letter to his father in battle. There are 2,800 Civil War soldiers buried at Oakwood and I learned a few of their stories.
Strangely odd to someone raised north of the Mason-Dixon but, I felt sorry for the people of that time...they lost their right to their ways and their past. It seems that in 1907 the US Government sent back to the southern states the battle flags they had taken during the Civil War. There are some sitting in a museum vault in NC in need of restoration so that they can be put on display. Seems like a great cause and I will be sure to look into it.