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Dyer Folks and Peck Switch Doin's Last Revised 22 Oct 2017 |
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These two gals from the Dyer High School class of '61 (they were child prodigies!) just spent the July Fourth 2007 holidays cruising to the Bahamas on the Queen Mary II out of New York. It's Alice Ball McCutcheon and Carol Stockton Mannon as if you didn't know. There are more pictures of them on their cruise here. |
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While visiting with my mother one day, she had a surprise visit from Mrs. Catherine Thomas, Mrs. Dorothy McClure, and her daughter Jean McClure Weaver. It certainly was good to see all of them again. Mrs. Dorothy is now living in her own condo near Jean in Nashville. And Mrs. Catherine seems as spry as ever, and says she's ready whenever anybody says "Let's go!" |
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Well, I'm just back from spending several weeks in Tennessee. Cousin Natalee was finally out of school and looking forward to a week in Florida, so I took on house sitting and dog feeding duties for a week. They sure do look anxious to "get gone" don't they? |
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We finally managed to get a week free and make a trip to Tennessee in late April for a visit. For once we were lucky on the weather, and we actually hit the peak of the spring flower season. Here's my mother out checking out her Japanese Maple, red azaleas, and flowering dogwoods The whole town of Dyer was in bloom like this, and was prettier than I've seen it in years. Could not have asked for better weather either. Of course a week after we left for home, they got several nights of hard freezes from the same front that dumped 3½" of snow on Waco! There are more pictures from our 2007 Spring visit to Dyer here. |
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At first I thought that Tennessee had reverted to the late 1800s, but it turns out that Samuel Reed was demonstrating turn of the century woodwork to a visiting group of elementary school students. Gibson County High School has quite an impressive exhibit of pioneer building reproductions. Picture courtesy of Natalee Reed
And I have posted plenty more pictures of Pioneer Homeplace here! |
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As a kid in Dyer, TN, I grew up in the brick house at left which was built by my grandfather. I measured that huge old Tulip Poplar out in the front yard to be 6 feet in diameter and over 110 feet tall. My mother tells me she remembers her mother and father talking about how huge the tree was already when they were in high school. Mother figures the tree must have been at least 120 years old. It was the last of four that used to be on this hill. |
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Sunday April 2, 2006 brought a killer tornado to Dyer, and that magnificent old poplar tree finally succumbed. Good fortune smiled on us that night though, as the tree fell in the only direction that it could do no serious damage. Power and telephone service was knocked out in much of Dyer. At my mother's house power was finally restored Tuesday night and telephone service followed on Wednesday. Many people in the area suffered terrible losses and it will take a long time to recover. Picture courtesy of Natalee Reed |
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Alice Ball McCutcheon is celebrating her ... 29'th ... birthday in style with a cake from her sister-in-law. Daughter Lynn snapped this picture as proof! Happy birthday Alice! |
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My mother, who was very ill when we visited for Thanksgiving 2005, is now recovered and had an exceptionally bountiful Christmas thanks to cousin Natalee and her family. Here, mother's opening her new outfit courtesy of Natalee, and she is really enthused. Really! Picture courtesy of Natalee Reed. |
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