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?

Time Machine: McHenry Yearbook 1972-73

(Taken from Facebook 2009)

I don't see a copyright notice. I hope anyone who knows folks in this book will comment (Be sure to give your name too!) I just took it out to the picnic table (July 11, 2009) in the shade and shot it with my digital camera. That worked pretty well, I think.

(2009) A couple or three years ago I walked through the area around the old lunchroom (just the corner is visible at the far left) then up those long steps, through the tangled undergrowth that nearly completely blocks any view of the building now, on to the old front porch you see in this picture. And carefully poked around through what is left of the building. Much of the roof is gone. 

Chalkboards still clung to some of the walls. Had to be very careful where I stepped. 

It made me very sad to think of the care so many took with that old building for so long. And to think of those no longer with us... Judson, Mrs. Lewis, Nancy Helser, Nellie Hill, Evelyn Trigg, Mr. & Mrs. Lindsey, Ellen Bennett, Martha King, Mrs. Burge...

... and to wonder about some of the students I worried over so those first two years. 

I left through the courtyard and around the wing that held my old room at the left rear and down the old drive.

Lester Brookshire: Can you take me there, now? I'd like to take some photos, though I know it would be sad. I loved the real black slate boards we had then! Great contrast with the white chalk and just wash off.

Judson Frost hired me over the phone one morning in the Spring of 1971 as I was headed out the door for school at Liberty WV. He died during the 1976-77 school year of a sudden heart attack during a mounted parade he was participating in.

Facebook Comments

Pam Burgess

Wow! I knew he had a heart attack, but never learned the details. Guess I was too young.

Lester Brookshire

He had his first child when he was 40, the same year my wife and I had our first in our 20's! That gave us a special bond.

TamaraBarry Tidwell

The best man ever!!!!!! I LOVEWD HIM!

Helen Wood Tillery

He was there when I went.

Ellen Bennett, the school secretary for many years is second from left on front row. I'm sorry to report that Ellen died several years ago. I attended her funeral. I think she died of cancer.

TamaraBarry Tidwell
There is little Marisa(Gayle)

Helen Wood Tillery
I am 4th on first row sitting down from left

Lester Brookshire
This is the way I remember you to this day. You have stayed this age in my mind. There is that lovely smile! There is Cathy, sitting next to Gayle! Photos are our time machines, aren't they?

Thomas Hughes
right of Brice is Gregg Paris
Directly behind Brice T I believe is Janice Childs and to her left is Darlene Cromer and right of Paris is Carlton Firestone

TamaraBarry Tidwell
How cute you and Janice are. Not dorky even though you were a nerd. LOL