Just returned, April 24, from the Southeast Coast; Savannah and St. Augustine where, serendipitously, we got a personal tour of the renovation of possibly the oldest house in the USA. And with the owner, a product of Wausau, no less and also a graduate of Newman H.S.; she, the class of 61, me, '65. The house, the surviving walls and facade of which are made of coquina, a sedimentary rock made of shell fragments, was, according to the national historic place plaque, orginally constructed about 1583, or so I recall (I forgot my camera as well as just forgot). The Newman grad is just completing a massive renovation and rehab and was going to spend her
first night there along with her sister and brother in law the night of the day we visited.
We were all in the area for the wedding of Carl Jehn, Tom and Heidi's son, just south of town. MJ and I had left Madison on the 11th for an arbitration in Springfield on the 12th followed by a night in Paducah and lunch the next day at the Mothership Barbecue http://www.nashvillescene.com/Stories/Columns/Dining/2006/07/13/Smokin_/index.shtml in Nashville before moving on to Cousin Jimmy and Jean at their new home in Rome, GA. Then on to Savannah and a couple of days getting acquainted with the quaint. On the way down to Gainesville and Lisa, we pulled into the Okefenokee Swamp to pay respects to Pogo, Albert, Churchy, Howland, Porkypine but mostly saw Albert's Alligator friends on our kayak trip into the swamp. And these were the big guys and up close and personal. Of course, there were ibises, sandhill crannes, egrets, comorants etc. but the gators dominated and got us pretty juiced. Once I figure out how to insert photos here, I'll do it. Same with hyperlinks.
