Time Machine: Russ & Laura Visit Mid 1972

Posted to Facebook on January 3, 2010....

At Berry College's Old Mill c. June 1972

Laura Nelson

Russell Nelson

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Joan Shaw Turrentine
Hey, I remember that guy!
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Terrell Shaw
Russell (and his wife Ruth whom we hadn't met) visited with us again last fall. [2009] Despite 40 years between visits we picked right back up and had a ball for several days.

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April 28, 2011

from Russ Nelson after tornadoes hit Northwest Georgia

Hi Terrell.  Is everyone OK?  Out here in Oregon it sounds like half a dozen states nearly washed into the Atlantic.  I left a message for Charlie also.  Have you heard from him?  Jim Shack Rd.  Was that the cabin on Lake Creek Laura and I visited sometime in the mid 72?  If so I think I have a photo of you and Sheila on the front porch.  Russ Nelson.

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Terrell Shaw
Yes, my family is great. Sheila and I did spend a few minutes huddled with two unhappy cats under the dining room table, but no damage at all at our house. My mother had a big maple down but it missed the house. No deaths or major injuries that I have heard of in Floyd Co. but millions in damage all over the county. Ringgold (north of us) had it much worse with several deaths and even more destruction. I haven't heard from Charlie in the last few weeks.

Yes, the tornado did a lot of damage on Jim Shack Rd. The cabin we used to own burned several years ago so it was already gone, but thats the one. I'd like to see that picture. There are a few pics of it in my albums on Facebook.

Russell Nelson
Glad to hear you are all OK. I sent Charlie a message but haven't heard back from him. A little concern there. I'm going through old West Virginia photos looking for Teacher Corps images. When get them together, I'll get them scanned and on the page. I'll get the Jim Shack photo as well. By the way do you remember "Aardvark Mountain Lodge? Now there was a cabin in the woods that might have been improved with a few gallons of gas and a match. Remember the copperhead snake under the kitchen sink?

Ruth and I got back from a vacation in Lake Havasu City AZ last week. Finally got out of town for a few weeks. Not sure if you got that message from me. We're going over to the Oregon Coast this week to work on one of the beach houses. I'll keep you posted of stuff from this side of the continent. You do the same. Good to hear from you.

Terrell Shaw
Its great to hear from you, as well, Russ. I may try to give Charlie a call. He was going great guns there for a while, contacting our old NTC folk.

 

At the Chubbtown Cabin 1972-1976

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.

Christie Hufstedler Boyd
Is that the bottom drawer of the stove?

Terrell
Yep... important part of the story...

Wanda Milky Dagraedt
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.  

Well Rhonda I was about as happy as a fella without indoor plumbing could be.

My gorgeous bride beside our 1972 ... jacuzzi? Note the shampoo and conditioner.

Bedelia Ellison
I love the swim suit. Sheila was a beautiful bride.

Dana Jordan Alexander
I Love these Photos reminds me of my family camping trips my dad use to force us on 3 weeks at the lake fishing we took baths just like that but it was fun ,Kim and Lori Loveless use to go with us with there family , those really were the good ole days .. i will have to see if I can dig up some ole school pictures i know I still have some and some of those camping trips 

Terrell
Yes, Dana, dig up those McHenry pics!

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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.