Time Machine: West Georgia Tollway

 

RNT: Old Depot to fall Monday

 

Tear Britches Trail

I am not sure of the date of our overnight hike in the Cohutta wilderness in the mid seventies. My best guess is 1974. Our friend Mike Bock came down from his home in Kettering, Ohio and we invited my younger brother David to join us.

Mike took some pictures and developed and printed them as 8x10s and put them in an album for us. I am writing this in January of 2026 after scanning all the pictures and moving them to a more archive friendly album.

Time Machine: AJC Hank Aaron Special Edition

 

Hank Aaron

 

Time Machine: Down By Lake Creek 1974

These pictures were taken in 1974 at our cabin in Chubbtown along Lake Creek. These were posted on my Facebook on February 10, 2010 -- the comments are from 2010.

Ron takes a picture of Carol.

Mother and Carol walk along our drive.
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Carol Shaw Johnston
There's a hint of red in it in this photo - but generally I've never thought of you as having red hair.

David Baird Shaw

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Amanda Hearn Sims

Wow I definitely see Katie and Haley in this picture

Beth Shaw
Yeah - for real!

Haley Elizabeth Shaw
Don't take this the wrong way Daddy, but....YOU LOOK LIKE A GIRL

David Shaw
LOL!

Daddy fishes in Lake Creek near the edge of our lot.

Carol and Ron in our cabin.

Carol Shaw Johnston

Ahh - bookshelves made from bricks and boards. Those were the days!

Terrell Shaw
We used those same bricks and boards in our first three homes -- plus I used them in WV before that! Cheap. Sheila and I covered them with orange and green burlap. The seventies.

Betty Smith Franklin
Before kids could pull them down on top of themselves, you could go high!

Mother and Beth by the creek.

Amanda Hearn Sims

Mom looks a little grumpy

Beth Shaw
Yeah - I look like I'm having an attitude problem - which wasn't uncommon for me for a few years there. lol

Amanda Hearn Sims
Brian said you are a hippy.

Beth Shaw
Yeah, well. What can I say. Attitude problems.

My poor parents.

Ron Johnston fishing in Lake Creek.
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Carol Shaw Johnston
Wow!

Carol Shaw Johnston
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Carol
I think it was 1974 - because I remember that shirt as a maternity top.

Ruth Baird Shaw
 Beautiful woman inside as well as outside!
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Beth Shaw

Jane Baird Lathem
Your "hippie" days!!!! Great picture of you.

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Around the same time period Bill and Linda Stuntman and their little girl visited us at the cabin . Linda had been Sheila's roommate her sophomore year at Asbury College.

Bill Stuntman and daughter

Bill Stuntman and daughter

Linda Stutman and Sheila
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Betty Smith Franklin
You guys find all the good places.......

Sheila Matthews Shaw

Visiting Solomon in Ohio 1974

Solomon and Diana were in the states with their two little boys to visit Diana's family in Ohio. We hopped on a plane to Dayton and met Mike Bock then drove on up to visit the Lasois. About 1974 (Do not remember exact date)

Ruth Baird Shaw (Jan. 3, 2010) Thanks for posting that photo Terry. I had not seen it before you you have it on Alone on A limb?

Terrell Shaw:  (Jan. 3, 2010) I wonder why FB put this pic at the top of my wall again? This was posted many weeks ago.

Ieula Ann Dick Baird, 1885-1973

Time Machine: At the Cabin

This is the one-room cabin with kitchen/bathroom addition where Sheila and I lived from June of 1972 until some time in 1976. Note:
• our 73 ragtop Blazer (the only new car we have ever owned)
• the full width screened front porch.
• the back side door to the small kitchen.
• the old pump atop the often dry well.
• the steep hill behind.
When we had the property surveyed we discovered the corner of the kitchen in this picture was not on our property! We had to buy a half-acre of the neighbor's land so we could control our own well and back door! 

Our friend Mike Bock took these pictures in March 1973. Sheila and I are sitting by the creek in our front "yard" below our log cabin. 
Look at that gorgeous woman I was/am privileged to come home to every day!
Mama was right, I should have cut my hair. And sideburns.

Another shot by Mike Bock in March 1973.

Sheila at the table. The window looks into the add-on kitchen. The curtains were on hinged arms that would swing around to cover the windows. No ceiling at all. Pretty pine paneling.

Another book jacket shot. Notice the bricks-and-boards bookcases in the background. They were a staple of our furnishings for many years

Pensive Sheila.

Book jacket shot number one.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Hurt? Bitter? Aggravated? Pensive? Trying not to laugh? I'm not sure.

The girl I married.

I actually don't think we intended to dress alike that day. Other than wearing red to Rome High games I don't remember ever trying to match.

Young love.

Christie Hufstedler Boyd

Awww, and matching plaid shirts too. Was this in W VA?

Terrell Shaw
Nope, Greater Booger Hollow, off Jim Shack Rd on Lake Creek.

Jane Baird Lathem
Wuz you just about to kiss her full on the mouth????

Terrell Shaw
I'd probably just finished planting one on her and was gettin' ready for a reprise. We were lip-locked more often than not that year. Ahhhh. Young love.
'Course I still kiss on her all she'll put up with. Luckily her eyesight has continued to decline.

We definitely could strike a counter-culture pose.

I wish I had better pics of the interior of the cabin. The fireplace was very nice. The place burned down about ten years ago or so.

The stream was obviously up when this pic was made in March 1973. Looking downstream on Lake Creek from our cabin.

 

Another pic of Mike Bock sitting at our round oak table in the cabin and another good book jacket shot.

I took this pic of Mike Bock sitting at our round oak table in the cabin. We were experimenting with light. A good book jacket shot, don't you think?