Friday 1981 Fair to cloudy. Jennings was down. I washed some. The Touraine building burned at Big Stone. We had to go stay with Wendi this eve. Janice worked overtime.
Footnote: Jennings is her brother. The Touraine building was a big old apartment building in Big Stone Gap. There were a lot of people who lived in the building located right on Wood Ave. almost in the heart of town. I took piano lessons in that building from Hallie P. Litton. I walked there after school one afternoon a week for 1/2 hour lesson and I think it cost $4.00. The building was just about 2 blocks away from the Big Stone Gap school. I wonder where all those people went to live as I don't remember another apartment building in town. I remember that two of the high school teachers lived there, Miss Faith Cox and Miss Cora Dingus. I think they moved to apartments that were over the Mutual Drug store in the middle of town. I don't remember if anyone died in the fire.
Wendi is her granddaughter and Janice is her daughter who works at the Lonesome Pine Hospital. I guess there were people taken there after the fire.
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