Wow. Thanks.
I like to hear things like this right from the horse’s mouth.
Yeah, I used to love to sit and listen to the old folks talk. Much of it I still remember.
I am related, on my mothers side, to the family of Joel Sweeney, of 5 string banjo fame.
I have an old newspaper article about Mrs Sweeney fixing dinner for General Fitzhugh Lee after the surrender at Appomattox, VA. Their cabin was in the no man’s land between the Union and Confederate armies. A five minute walk from the McLean house.