The month of August won't be as simple as June or July were. Three blog posts to cover everything. But in this post, I get to write about my discovery of Lucky Creek in Osborne County!
We started the month with our anniversary and ended the month with my birthday weekend. Celebrating our anniversary at our favorite waterhole.
Our favorite Cherokee history park, Red Clay State Park, hosted a Cherokee Cultural Celebration weekend. We went on the very quiet day of Sunday -- we heard Saturday was packed with no grass to lay a blanket down on. Here is a celebration shirt and sticker I bought (for family importance context, G's grandfather was Cherokee)
I did a lot of exploring of maps and old maps in around Stockton and Alton. For some reason I got caught into this "rabbit hole" just searching. But hey, hey, I found some Luckey Family history! Great-grandfather W.O. Luckey history, Woo! Did you know that the creek that ran on W. O. Luckey's land is still called Lucky Creek?
I highlighted in yellow an old map that has W.O. Luckey name and the named creek on it. This would be barely in Osborne County, west of Alton. I highlighted in green the cemetery where they were buried. Now I understand W.O.'s interest in the irrigation program from Webster Lake (information my mom told me several years ago). Notice how the South Solomon clips the northeast corner of the property.
A wonderful article from someone about the Rooks County fair and 4-H. I was a member of the 4W 4H club for many years. I still remember turning all of the records to the courthouse after the club was dissolved during my 7th grade year. I highlighted the food stand part of the article - I still remember working the food stand and hearing motorcycle racing going on. I also learned what 4W meant - never knew.
A funny farm meme lol
And speaking of farms, I used a picture of the east pasture of the Hunter farm for a campus project of where you come from. 💖 Found so many fossils in that layer of exposed chalk.
G and I went to Gatlinburg for a one-night stay. We enjoyed the Apple Farm Restaurant again. We stayed in the same room as we did in May - the one with a balcony view of the Great Smokies. I had originally planned to stay two nights and go back home, but G had made other plans! We went to Morristown for me to explore my Taylor family roots and then to Newport to hang out with friends and visit a zoo. Those two posts will be on the Wordpress site.
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