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Post by Angela on Jun 21, 2009 19:36:02 GMT -5
06/05/07 at 03:09 PM BobbyWayne My Wife Betty said she will fix Baked Beans,Cole slaw, Two coconut pies and bring a couple of 2Ltr drinks and two bags of ice. cant hardly wait to see everyone Bobby Wayne&Betty
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Post by Angela on Jun 21, 2009 19:37:30 GMT -5
06/05/07 at 03:11 PM Maria Oh Bobby, that is wonderful!!!! I am so glad you and Betty are coming. I cannot wait to see you and Betty again. And my goodness what a load of food Betty is bringing!! This really makes me happy!!! Your Friend, Maria
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Post by Angela on Jun 21, 2009 19:39:24 GMT -5
06/05/07 at 04:20 PM epdj If this is the place I am thinking of it is right behind the Library and the Museum in Stuart. Also Wood Brother Race Museum is right there where you turn into the park and should be open. The last time I was there it did not cost to go in there or the Museum at the Library. The Museum at the Library is open from 10:00 until 2:00 and worth your time to go see. They have a lot of genealogy and history. The Library has a genealogy collection also. I plan on coming and I will bring a watermelon. Esther Johnson
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Post by Angela on Jun 21, 2009 19:41:06 GMT -5
06/05/07 at 04:22 PM sissy Yeah you are right Esther it is behind the library. The Wood Brother's Racing Museum Is right behind the park. sissy
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Post by Angela on Jun 21, 2009 19:42:41 GMT -5
06/06/07 at 11:14 AM Maria I spoke with Herman Bibey this morning and he said he'll be there and will bring his sister and that he will bring a bag ot ice also and a couple of large bags of potato chips. Herman Bibey's father Leonard Bibey was Arthur (Buck) Lawson's wife Nina Bibey's brother. Herman was also one of the people we interviewed who was in the documentary. Maria
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Post by Angela on Jun 21, 2009 19:44:25 GMT -5
06/06/07 at 01:22 PM Maria I just spoke with Nancy Young and she said she will be coming and is bringing her mom Mildred Neil 92 years old who was 14 years old at the time of the murders and lived in Stokes County and vividly remembers taking a tour of the cabin and that she remembers seeing alot of names and initials carved on the walls by people who toured the cabin. They are bringing corn on the cob and turtle brownies!!!!! Nancy's uncle. Ivy Burroughs owned the Burroughs Funeral Home in Walnut Cove where Arthur's body was taken when he was killed in the truck accident. Maria
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Post by Angela on Jun 21, 2009 19:46:21 GMT -5
06/06/07 at 01:31 PM Maria Just received an e-mail from Carol Page who said she is coming and will bring a cheese cake, cantelope. sliced tomatoes and onions for the hamburgers and some sodas. MARIA
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Post by Angela on Jun 21, 2009 19:47:55 GMT -5
6/06/07 at 10:26 PM froggirl Hello everybody. This picnic sounds like it's going to be a blast! And I'm hungry just from reading about all the food that ya'll are bringing. Unfortunately, I have a prior commitment (something about my son and a baseball game) that day so I won't be able to make it.
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Post by Angela on Jun 21, 2009 19:49:52 GMT -5
06/06/07 at 10:28 PM Maria Aw, I am really sorry you can't come Angie. I'll miss getting to see you again. I'll mail you a slice of watermelon!!!!!! MARIA
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Post by Angela on Jun 21, 2009 19:51:52 GMT -5
06/06/07 at 10:37 PM froggirl OK, I think. As long as its not a piece of that raisin cake ya'll have been talking about. Sounds terrible! froggirl
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Post by Angela on Jun 21, 2009 19:53:36 GMT -5
06/07/07 at 04:35 PM linda Sorry but iluvnumber3 and I will not be able to attend, we have a wedding and its Holly's birthday bash all in the same day. Hope everyone has a good time and will enjoy it and eat alot for us. linda smith
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Post by Angela on Jun 21, 2009 19:55:03 GMT -5
6/07/07 at 05:43 PM Maria Hi Clarence, It was good to hear from you today and to know you'll be joining us at the picnic. I'm really looking forward to meeting you and sitting down together for a chat. See you then!! (Clarence is Sockeye in the forum.) Maria
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Post by Angela on Jun 21, 2009 19:56:51 GMT -5
06/07/07 at 07:22 PM Maria I just heard from Shirry Madison and she will be coming. Shirry is the great, great grand-daughter of Sam Hill, the elderly gentleman who led all those hundreds or thousands of people on the tours of the Lawson cabin. Maria
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Post by Angela on Jun 21, 2009 19:58:23 GMT -5
06/07/07 at 08:27 PM ladebug Sounds like it will be really neat like a family reunion! ladebug
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Post by Angela on Jun 21, 2009 20:00:06 GMT -5
06/08/07 at 01:58 AM Maria Actually a family reunion is exactly what it is for me. So many of the people we interviewed, that had acting roles in the documentary and are a part of this message forum feel like family to me. It goes much deeper than just knowing you as interviewees, actors, and forum participants. I have become very attached to so many of you. I have laughed with you, shared experiences and memories with some of you, visited in your homes, and traipsed through cemeteries with you. I will never forget that night last fall when some of the people we had interviewed invited me and Matt and Eric to go with them to The Germanton Methodist Church Cemetery after dark for a wiener roast and ghost story swap. We didn't leave there until a little after midnight. We all laughed up-roarously when Matthew came running across the cemetery with that big microphone in his hand and just as he got to the edge of the campfire his feet slid out from under him and he fell to the ground and slid for a good three feet. The hardest I laughed however was when this young boy Cameron was so proud of himself when he finally figured out how to get his hot dog to stay on the end of that coat hanger long enough to get it roasted and he hollered "Maria, take my picture take my picture so people can see I roasted my own hot dog. Just as he swung the coat hanger in the air to show if off I snapped the camera and just as I did my camera caught his hot dog at the exact time it flew off the coat hanger and went sailing through the air right in front of this tombstone where he was standing. He didn't even know it had flown off and he just stood there grinning like a mule chewing briars. I laughed so hard tears were rolling down my cheeks and I was bent over double. And then that night we were shooting the scenes on Payne road. It was well after dark that time too and I'm talking "Stokes County dark" . It was pitch black when I got there and I was walking across that bridge which I had heard was haunted and I was creeping along it real slow so as not to stumble and fall in the dark when the voice of Linda Lane who played the role of Fannie Lawson called out through the darkness..."hang on Maria, Fannie's coming to get you." When she said that my mind immediately conjured up an image of Fannie Lawson rising up out of her grave and coming to get me. At that point my legs seriously started shaking. Later on Linda told me there were bears in the woods surrounding Payne Rood and that she had just seen one. I bought that tale hook, line, and sinker and coward in Court's pickup truck until Linda told me she had only been joking about seeing a bear. We've eaten at the same table together, hugged each other, even held your hands when some of you teared up and your voices broke when you recalled that terrible day. There was no way after all that that I could just say "thank you for the interview' and walk away and never be in touch again. Not after sharing so much of ourselves together. I've been truly blessed to have met and loved each and everyone of you. You have enriched my life tremendously and I thank you for that and for the wonderful memories that will sustain me forever. Here are some photos I took that night at the cemetery cookout. Maria
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