Searching for Shoals Junction

It’s spring break for most of the Upstate school districts, and I wanted to search for a few ghost towns. Mark Elbrecht and I had bounced around some possible targets, and after looking through the South Carolina section of the Abandoned Rails website, we decided to try to find Shoals Junction, at the end of [...]

Posted by Tom on April 4th, 2012 | 2 Comments Posted in History and Genealogy, Local, Photography

The Unknown Tongue

A weird chain of events led to an interesting investigation into history tangentially related to my family. This morning I participated in a webinar on the South Carolina Digital Newspaper Program, sponsored, in part, by the University of South Carolina Libraries. One of the presenters mentioned the possibility of doing genealogy research using the archive. [...]

Posted by Tom on April 1st, 2012 | 1 Comment Posted in Family, History and Genealogy, Religion

Brothers Retreat at Jocassee – Part Four

And so it was only two of us left. Chip had to get back to family, and Stephen had to get back to church. Houston and I got up, had a quick breakfast, then packed up the mountain of remaining food and gear into our trucks. At the Devil’s Fork State Park store we checked [...]

Posted by Tom on March 27th, 2012 | No Comments Posted in Family, Photography, Travel

Brothers Retreat at Jocassee – Part Three

As we suspected, after our long haul we were not going to be up for a late-night trip. Our nephew, Chip, joined us after work, and we set about the task of putting together dinner. It seems that each of us had brought enough snacks for all of us. There was more food than the [...]

Posted by Tom on March 27th, 2012 | No Comments Posted in Family, Paddling

Brothers Retreat at Jocassee – Part Two

…or “Becoming One with the Water” Houston and I got up early, thinking we might do an early paddle.  Unfortunately, the weather wasn’t cooperating.  It started pouring, and I kept checking the weather radar app on my phone.  It looked like it was going to clear up soon, though, and it did. Stephen got an [...]

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