Peninsula In Passage

Both sisters remember the semi-annual shopping trips to Norfolk when the women of the family jammed into a station wagon for the adventure. “And remember the warm cashews at the foot of the escalator in the J C Penney store?” June nudges Brenda. Beverly Outlaw met Marvin on a blind date when she was 17. From the Newtown section of Portsmouth, she graduated from St. Paul’s High School and entered a whole new world when she married Marvin four years later. They first went to Germany where he was stationed and then came home to Driver. She remembers: I knew what I was getting into moving to Driver in 1968 and my mother-in-law was very helpful as I met the village and met the family. I tried hard to learn to cook, can and to look without disdain on hog killings I went to one hog killing and made an excuse every year after that not to go. But I love the area since I came here and really enjoyed living here. Years ago my children could ride their bikes on Nansemond Parkway to Arthur’s store. Now I cannot get out of my driveway there so much traffic and so much development between Bennett’s Pasture Road and Shoulder’s Hill Road. The sisters share two recipes that have been in the Outlaw family for generations, sweet endings to church suppers and family gatherings.

(From left to right) Beverly Outlaw, Brenda Outlaw Duke, June Outlaw Bailey

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