Turtle Rock
As I see it…
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While watching the news of the raid on a church in Minnesota recently by a group of crazed and insensitive citizens, I couldn’t help but recall the time that Ohmer had hidden Evelyn’s Bible from her and forbade her from going to church again. Undeterred, she went to church against his orders the following Sunday.…
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The Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, in Madison County’s Wolftown is where Ohmer Jackson called home. With little education and at the young age of 14, he struck out on his own while many American young men were going off to fight in World War I. Leaving his parents, four sisters, and two brothers behind, he…
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When writing The Legend of Berry Mountain, I did so to share some of the events in my lifetime that are detailed in Twice Delivered, the book I wrote with my sister, and ultimately update readers here. While our book is no longer in publication, I have seen used copies being sold on the internet.…
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While living in California, we had looked at hundreds of log home floor plans in many sizes and styles by numerous companies. It was overwhelming at times and deciding on just one seemed impossible. What we did ultimately decide, however, was to not allow house cleaning to define our golden years. Unaware of the many…
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After spending Thanksgiving with Jeanette and family, I returned home for Christmas. Haywood’s health had taken a turn for the worse during my visit. He had been suffering recent setbacks from his battle with diabetes and COPD. Poor circulation in his legs led to amputations of his toes and later his leg. One evening while…
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Jeanette and I spent a lot of time getting to know each other after our first trip to Virginia. We probably should have purchased stock in the airlines. We even met in Denver for her following birthday where we had a beautiful dinner together at The Fort, a historic, a full scale replica of an…
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In April, 2009, LT married Diana, a girl he knew from school and the younger sister of one of his baseball teammates. Pam and I had encouraged him to take her out when they were teenagers, to no avail. We were pleased that years later, they finally got together and married. While that was going…
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Jeanette and Pam soon found themselves living with Sugarloaf and family again. Jeanette and Sugarloaf were working at a truck stop together while CB was still working as a printer for the Washington Post, living in the DC area during the week and commuting home on the weekends. One Saturday morning, while bouncing Pam on…
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Whenever Ohmer started drinking, Granny made the girls sleep with their clothes on and shoes next to the bed in case they had to get up in the middle of the night and run out of the house during a drunken rage. Well liked by everyone outside of the family, no one had any idea…
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Jeanette confirmed that she and her dad had performed the swab test on each other. I explained the possibility of cross-contamination and how it could affect the results. Compounding the problem, she didn’t identify the second swab as being that of her third cousin, making it clear that she now had to call the lab…
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