We drove to Lewis County on Friday afternoon and got off at Olive
Hill, KY and traveled north about 20 miles to Jim's cousin Geraldine's house near Head of Grassy. She invited us to have dinner with her and her children and a cousin. What a good meal!
Lloyd Osborne, Aunt Zelma's son, was in charge of cooking barbecue pork and ribs for lunch. We found his cooker quite unique. No gas or electric grill for him. We had regular reunion fare - and too much of it. The fresh veggies were my favorite.
We stayed in the area, visiting that evening with Lloyd and Shirley who live near Vanceburg, on the Ohio River.
After dinner we traveled 30 more miles to Grayson, KY, the closest motel. We got up on Sat. morning, had a late breakfast and then went back to Geraldine's house around noon. She had announced that we would be eating at 1 p.m. the reunion was to be outside, even the food. It was so HOT. We ate and most of us went inside to watch an old movie that Larry put on a DVD for us to watch. All 8 of the brothers and sisters were in attendance at the reunion in 1993, the year the video was made. Four are now deceased and 4 are still living.
We had breakfast at the motel and left to head home around 9:30 a.m. on Sunday. We traveled west to Lexington, when we took off on a road that would ultimately connect with I-65 south.
Our first stop was at My Old Kentucky Home, the home that inspired Stephen F Foster to write the song. It is a nice state park.
We left there and traveled to Abraham Lincoln country. We saw a replica of his boyhood home (a one-room log cabin), a few miles from where he was born. He was born in Sinking Springs and the family moved to another farm 4 years later. The birthplace home is inside the building pictured here, with the front of the building looking like Lincoln's monument in Wash., DC. We could not go inside the museum to see his birthplace home since they were working on the interior for a couple of more weeks.
Pictured here is the source of their drinking water, called sinking springs. You had to go down some steps to a pool to collect the water that dripped off the rocks.
