Tape number: V35
Name: Weeks Hill
Location: Irvington, VA
Date of Birth: Feb. 26, 1922
Date of Recording: 9/21/05
Recorded By: Grayson Mattingly
Log Sheet by: Grayson Mattingly
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1/07 | F,L | Explains how she would spend summers in Irvington in the Curtmyer house. House was behind where the Chesapeake Academy is now. Grandfather bought property for $300.00 Includes the property were the Academy is currently located. |
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4/09 | ST | Exciting to see the steamers come in. Everyone would go to the wharf to see the boat coming in. As a little girl she would get on the boat at Irvington and ride it to Weems, White Stone, Windmill Point. |
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5/45 | ST | Steamer had a big dining room. Chairs all around on the boat. People would have a good time. Remebers the whistle blowing and the engines turning has the boat came up the creek.Remebers the Potomac. Lots of pigs and cattle on the boats. |
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10/30 | SC | Talked to captain - Archie Long captain of Potomac - friend of her grandfathers. Would be shown around pilot house on the Potomac. Afraid to touch anything. Her mother and father had their honeymoon on the steamboat. |
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13/00 | H | Describes going over to Pop Castle with her father to see the cannon ball in the wall. Her grandfather was in the "battle of Pop Castle" during the civil war. |
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17/21 | H | Describes what her father told her about her grandfather and the battle of Pop Castle. |
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24/50 | L, E | Going to the Adams Floating Theater - story about her uncle and his laughing at the show |
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29/00 | L, H, F | Tells how her father used to take her around to various civil war battle fields. How her father and Uncles bought battle field and tuned it into a golf course - in Petersburg. Dug up old rifle and other artifacts. |
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35/00 | b-roll old rifle found in Petersburg battle field, | |
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