In 1972 Sheila and I found a listing in the Rome News Tribune for a Log Cabin for sale in Chubbtown. This is a place to collect pictures and memories from the four years that we lived in that little fishing cabin on a hill overlooking Lake Creek. |
| We named the cabin Bywater and I carved the name into a piece of driftwood from Cape San Blas. As you may notice I carefully copied the script used by JRR Tolkien. We hung the sign on this limb over our long dirt drive. |
 |
| The sign over the long dirt drive to our cabin on Lake Creek. We named it Bywater after the village in the Shire near Hobbiton. I carved the letters in the Tolkien style on a piece of driftwood Sheila and I found at Cape San Blas. The sign now hangs in our mudroom. The cabin burned to the ground several years ago. |
 |
| Our mailbox on Jim Shack Road in Chubbtown, South Floyd County GA. Early seventies. |
 |
| In our Chubbtown log cabin -- we lived there from mid-1972-1976. Sheila crocheted that Afghan. The library cabinet is now in our upstairs hallway and houses part of my collection of political items. The blonde dresser is in our bedroom still. And the blonde is right here in the room with me as I mess around with Facebook. Rhonda Ingram Bramblette Love this one, too...you can "see" her. Bedelia Ellison Sheila was so cute! Terrell What you mean "was"?! |
 |
| This is Sam. I bought her new in 1969. I named her in honor of my then girlfriend, Sheila Ann Matthews. Here she is afyter a freshet flooded Lake Creek and swamped her. We put her on blocks, poured oil through her to try to keep her from freezing up but it didn't work. We ended up selling her to Maloney's junk yard. Terry Moloney rebuilt her as a dune buggy and she did eventually ride again. Christie Hufstedler Boyd Was this your car? Joan Shaw Turrentine I never heard this story, Terrell. I am enjoying looking through your pics of the sixties and seventies. |
 |
| This is at a little log cabin we owned and lived in from 1972 till 1976. It was off Jim Shack Road on Lake Creek in a community called Chubbtown near Booger Hollow in southern Floyd County GA. I was preparing to construct a little outbuilding. Jim Achmoody Wow, what interesting names--how long was your W.V. stay? Terrell Home again, jiggedy jog. Just in from Tallahassee. I lived in WV for the two years I served in the Nat'l Teacher Corps, 1969-71. Is that when I visited you, or was it after Sheila and I married? I can't remember the circumstances of that visit. BTW we'd love to have y'all visit here. We have a spare bedroom... y'all come! Jim I think it was in '71 probably, we were married in '70, thinking you probably visited in 'summer of '71? Are you still teaching? Are thinking of going to Gatlinburg area-not sure how long of a drive from there to Rome , will check.[later] Terry, You visited us while you were teaching in WV, before you were married. Rome is farther than I thought from Gatlinburg so hopefully will be able to stop another time--want to see Charleston some day, so maybe that will work out next yr.? Do you know if a word document can be pasted to gmail and then from there to a blog pg.? Wasn't able to paste from Word to the blog in a single step. - Jim |
 |
| David came to visit us for a few days and helped me dig a place in the hillside to construct a small out building. David Shaw I remember that week!!! |
 |
| Mavis Matthews fishing at Terrell & Sheila shaw's house on Lake Creek about 1972. Nora Matthews Granny!!!!!!! |
  |
| Jimmy Matthews, fishing at Lake Creek at Terrell & Sheila Shaw's little log cabin home, Chubbtown, Georgia about 1972. |
 |
| My father, Charles Columbus Shaw, by Lake Creek at our cabin about 1972. |
 |
| Sheila rescued this little dog off of Booger Hollow Rd, brought the cute little feller home, fed him, took him to the vet for shots and such, bought food, dishes, toys,... one week later he continued his journey leaving us behind. |
 |
| I believe this was the kitten we called "Blossom" |
 |
| Have I told the possum story yet? If not, I will. Christie Hufstedler Boyd So, tell us! I'm sure we'd all enjoy your story! Terrell It is one of my "storytelling" stories and I actually have it written up on some disk, somewhere. Not tonight, Christie. |
Is that the bottom drawer of the stove?
Terrell
Yep... important part of the story...
Wanda Milky Dagraedt
Baked or Sauteed'?
Terrell
Baked or Sauteed'?
Terrell
<grin> My first Thanksgiving season at McHenry I asked the kids about their family Turkey Day traditions. Little Nancy didn't hesitate to let me know that her Daddy had a 'possum penned up on the back porch already, fattening it up for T'day! (Not this one.)
 |
| Quit fogging the computer screen ladies! One week after we moved into the cabin, the well went dry. Our bathing was done in the creek for a few days. Rhoda Ingram Bramblette Awwwww...this is Priceless!! You look soo happy! Love it! Ann Marie House H-O-T!!!!!!! Terrell I know it's difficult, but try to control yourself, AnnMarie.  |
Note from the future (August 2024)Sheila and I just spent sixteen days visiting our daughter Brannon's family in Vista, California (northern San Diego County). Brannon and John gave up their own bedroom for us and they stayed in the living room (after getting the kids to sleep). I noticed but didn't examine a framed picture of a log cabin next to their bed. I sort of wondered about it. Maybe it was a place they stayed on one of their trips. The day before we headed home I took a closer look and was amazed at how much it reminded me of our Chubbtown cabin. I was shocked when Brannon confirmed that it IS a photo of our cabin from the early seventies. How did I not immediately realize that. There were the tulips I planted. There was the piece of driftwood I would later carve "Bywater" into as a sign over our drive. How about that. Here it is.
No comments:
Post a Comment