Today, we went to the Byron Hubert Reece’s Heritage Farm
about 10 miles south of Blairsville, Georgia, next door to Vogle State
Park. Byron was a prolific writer of
prose and poetry. As a matter of fact he
was Poet Laurette of Georgia in 1950s.
Life wasn’t easy for him, which probably inspired him. Hardship is hard, but it can also be
inspirational. He also had TB and spent
a lot of time in the Batty Hospital in Rome.
His father was sickly so he had to work at the their farm so they would
not lose it. He was an educator at Young
Harris College. He had pressure on him coming
all directions. He finally ended it all.
He is a distant relative.
We are both descended from John Hunter.
Now, I understand, annually Union County Historical Society
has a celebration of his life at the farm site he worked so hard at. They serve free tomato sandwiches (with Duke
Mayo of course), and a bluegrass group played.
This time the Bluegrass group was the Shady Grove Singers, which
includes the preacher, his wife, and three others of the Shady Grove Baptist
Church in Union County.
I talked to a young single lady down from Murphy, North
Carolina. She said he heard about this
so “Here I am.” She said. She asked me
did I know anything about the band. I
told her exactly what is above, because that is what they told the audience. Later, in another part of the park/farm I saw
her in a swing, by a bubbling brook talking on her cell phone. I overheard her tell whomever all about the
band, which was exactly word for word what I told her, and what the spokes lady
(the preacher’s wife) told us. I like it
when I know someone listened to me.
The bubbling brook she was sitting by makes a nice slushing
over rocks and jumping 6 inch water falls.
It is also a tributary to the Notley River, which is one of the few
rivers that flow north. And by the way,
that creek was flowing north too.
An authoress of a book about her ancestor Micajah Clark Dyer
sat down and talked to Anna and I for a
while. While there we bought her book at
he gift shop. Anna read part of it to me
on the way back to Marietta. Micajah
Clark Dyer is a distantly related in-law. I knew about him already. He invented a flying machine before the
Wright Brothers did, had it legally patented and all that.
Also, I got to meet a facebook friend (and distant relative)
Ken Akens.
Sylvia Dyer Turnage, author of "FLYING OFF RATTLESNAKE MOUNTAIN"
Ken Akins
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