Time Machine: Baby Lewis

 

Time Machine:

We found this little poem in 2024 among my Mother's papers in very rough form. She likely recopied it with further edits for Daddy on the Valentine's Day of their fortieth year of marriage -- 1978.

 

Happy Valentine's Day

                    by Ruth Baird Shaw 

Happy Valentine's Day, My Love!

This verse is from my heart.

I could not find a card just right

At Rich’s or Kmart.

So with my pen and paper,

Sans talent and sans time,

I wrote for you this love note

In my infamous rhyme.

How do I say I love you

With words that your heart hears?

Browning counted up the ways;

I’ve totaled up the years.

How do I love thee?

Let me underscore

That 40 years count all the ways

That Browning named -- and more!

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Time Machine: Boxing Day at the Fox

 

Christmas 1976

 

Christmas 1976
L-R Standing: Carol, Joan, Beth, Terrell
Seated: Ruth, Charles
Kneeling: Janice, Debi, David

Time Machine: Optimist Playground at McHnery c. 1976

This picture was published in Broadside, our weekly newspaper. I posted a copy on my Facebook on February 9, 2010. I have copied comments from that post below.

Tony Pope
Do you know what year this was?

Terrell Shaw
We published Broadside from 1975-1977. I'll try to remember to check the back issues some time and get an exact date. The kids really enjoyed the new playground equipment!

Tony Pope
Was that a school newsletter? I need to get copies to put in our McHenry books.

Terrell Shaw
No. It was Rome's weekly newspaper. Sheila and I were partners in it, mainly with Steve and Laurie Craw. True story: we laid out the paper every Weds. night. If things went well, I was allowed to go home at midnight so I could get up and teach the next day. That happened occasionally. Sometimes things didn't go well and I slept not at all. I should have been fired. I'd do OK till lunch, but get a few calories into me and I got powerful sleepy... long story short, we opened the curtains & I read to all three (Clayton, Gresham, Shaw) classes after lunch every day. One Thursday I woke up in front of 75 children when some child said in a stage whisper, "Mr. Shaw's gone to sleep!"

Tony Pope
Ha... I just got our Young Romans submission turned in the other day. I always say I'm going to work on it piece by piece until the deadline...and that never happens!

Terrell Shaw
You orta come to our storytelling tomorrow, Tony. 3 pm at Rolater Park in Cave Spring.

Tony Pope
Weather and time permitting I was going to try and work it in.

Kathy Wilson
I remember watching the kids climb up and over this. They had a lot of fun with this,even the third graders.All u need to do is find an album with Brad in it and then do some adding or subtracting to get the year.

Tony Pope
We had one at Johnson too. I'd bet there would be a liability over them nowadays! Ha... Had a lot of fun on them.

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.