Wednesday, July 4, 2012

July 4, 1979, Wednesday Aunt Estelle wrote

Cloudy, rain.   We went to Janices for lunch.  Janice, Wendi & I rode to Appalachia & back.   Curt ate supper with us.  To Prayer meeting tonite.  Poured rain late today. 


Footnote by Pat:    Janice is her youngest daughter.  Wendi is her granddaughter.  Appalachia is a small town about 2 miles north of Big Stone Gap where Janice and Wendi live.   I grew up in Big Stone Gap and Appalachia was our biggest sports rival.   Fifty years later, the two towns took care of that problem as now the two schools have merged into one.   Seems to be working OK.   In  1959 the Big Stone  Gap school merged with East Stone Gap school and we were renamed Powell Valley High School.    Took a couple of years for that to work itself out.  I was in that first graduation class from Powell Valley = class of '60.   And now 50 years later the new combined school is called Union High School and instead of the Vikings they are now the Bears.  All seems so strange.      Curt is her brother-in-law.    Happy 4th to all of you.  Stay cool.  

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