Peninsula In Passage

room would be lit up so brightly that the farmers around the table would all let out a collective gasp and decide they needed a gashouse to power their homes. He also remembers that when he was attending Woodrow Wilson High School he rode to school in a car pool with his father who drove a 1939 Packard, Ed Ames who always drove a new Chevrolet, Claudius Riddick who had a 1937 Chevrolet and Hinton Hurff, who was the youngest, only 10 years older than he. After school he rode the Trailways bus to Driver and walked home from there. Traditionally the farm has been called Eagle Point. Phyllis Cornell says - Eagles were nesting here from what Elizabeth told me but photos of the farm when the Cornells bought it show a treeless point that was used as a pasture. However, things have grown up since then and the eagles are back. One used to adorn the roof of the gazebo on the pier. He was majestic and when he flew over the house he blocked out the sun. We re-roofed the gazebo last year with a metal roof and I think it gets too hot for him to perch there. We do see eagles fly overhead but we’ve not found the aerie. The Cornell home is full of memories as is the surrounding 100 acres of land which the Cornells have placed in conservation with the Williamsburg Land Conservancy.

Carbide gas house and fixture

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