The “Gem Capital of the World” is actually right here in Franklin, NC. The hills and mountains around here are filled with all kinds of gem stones from quartz to...

We had planned on staying in Franklin for 4 days, but with problems with the toilet and the sink, we were here for 7 days. Ants started joining us as...

Visits with Susan in Raleigh are always a delight. (She was my roommate before I met Barney.) Again we stayed at the state fairgrounds campground, but had to leave by...

For years Barney and the sons have talked about living on base, and I could only imagine what it would look like. Now that his partial disability allows us to...

A couple of years after we moved to Georgia, Barney and I were driving north along the coast in North Carolina (where Barney lived with his family in the mid-1970s)...