I was going on eleven years old when the great catastrophe came, that of going to the farm and leaving our wonderful home and friends. […] Read More
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No one has the privilege of choosing the time or place of his birth. Perhaps there are those who would have preferred a different time […] Read More
By: Charles E. Brooks Upper Camp Creek School known in the early days as Kimmel School, was an old school, perhaps one of the oldest […] Read More
The autumn following my fifth birthday which was in March. I remember some talk in our family about starting me to school. But I was […] Read More
Pictured Above: THE KIMMEL SCHOOL on Upper Camp Creek about 1902. Some of the pupils were absent because of scarlet fever, including Millard Brooks, Virgie Brooks […] Read More
[One of my teachers at Camp Creek School was] Anna McAllister. She was a cousin of our first teacher James Wilkinson and lived in the […] Read More
In the early summer of 1905 word got around our neighborhood that a man near Taskee had captured a large rattlesnake, which had the words, […] Read More
When I was a boy. Fishing and swimming were chief summer pastimes. The word. “pastime” might give a wrong connotation; farm boys of that day […] Read More
In this sophisticated, mechanized age none but some who are classed as II senior citizens are likely to remember ever having attended pea hullings. Pea […] Read More
In my growing-up “years”, one of the most enchanting things about my Wayne County home was the mountains. They are relatively small mountains, but many […] Read More
Any child who has the good fortune to have older sisters and brothers, some of them young adults, is in a most unique position. He […] Read More
To leave this environment [Camp Creek] when only eleven years old was a heart breaking experience. I had not been aware that such a move […] Read More
The above image is the original build of the Peach Tree Church. During most of the years that we lived on the Old Farm, we […] Read More
Photo above: Des Arc Street & Church After we moved to Upper Camp Creek, Des Arc was our “town”, It was a big day when I […] Read More