As usual, Dale & I had a great time in Knoxville, Tennessee, at the annual FGS Conference. Door prizes are one of the important aspects of the FGS Conference, and our winner was Ms. Charlotte Powers of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. We didn’t make contact with her before the end of the conference, so her prize will be mailed today. She won a copy of Dollarhide’s “Genealogical Resources of the Civil War Era.”
We drove to Knoxville and back, making the trip in about 3 days each way. We spent Monday, August 16, at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville. Coming home, we drove fourteen and a half hours each day on Sunday, and Monday, getting home about noon on Tuesday. We stayed in Rawlins, Wyoming on Monday night, and found that the next morning it was just 36 degrees. Rawlins is right at 7000 feet in elevation, at the top of the continental divide in Wyoming, making for cool nights rather early in the season.
