Introduction

These are the photos that are going in the book.  I plan to upload hundreds of photos from the nearly four years we lived at Linefork, and label them.  This is only the beginniner, on the eve of the book's publishing!  Please come back over time to see the rest of the pictures.

The kids and I at the edge of our yard at the head of the holler, Linefork, KY, summer 1998

L to R: Me, Becky, Barbara, Emily, Tristan, and Timmy

 

Our house, from the meadow below where I did my 'walking' for exercise. That's our old camping trailer on the meadow. Linefork, KY

 

The cows we had to walk past at the foot of our hill. The road winding uphill on the right side of the picture is out driveway. It was half a mile up to our house. Linefork, KY

 

 

This is a view from above our house looking down the holler. The small building in the middle of the picture is a shed on the meadow. Our house is slightly above and to the left, with a gray roof. Linefork, KY

 

About a quarter mile below our house was the ruins of an old homestead. All that was left were foundation stones and this fireplace and chimney. Linefork, KY



Our first trip to the ocean. Wilmington, NC, August 1996.

Becky, Emily, Timmy, Tristan, and Barbara



Timmy at our campsite on Isle of Palms, near Charlestown, SC. That's the smaller tent we all slept in until we replaced it with a bigger tent in August 1998. This was earlier that summer. The one-burner propane stove on the ground between the picnic table and tent is what we cooked our camp meals on.

Timmy and Tristan practice landing the space shuttle (simulator) at the Alabama Space and Rocket center. Huntsville, Alabama, summer 1998.

Tristan, Timmy, and Emily standing on a submerged boat dock in the Missouri River at White Swan, SD. August 1998

A trail ride near Mt. Rushmore, SD. The guide was a young man named Kyle. Behind him was Barbara, Timmy, Tristan, and Emily, and I was last.

 

 

Camped on a back road in the Black Hills of South Dakota. We just drove up a forest service road until we found a nice place to set up a tent. This is the new tent we bought in August 1998 on our way to South Dakota. Emily is next to the car and Barbara is between the car and tent.

Tristan, Timmy, Barbara, and Emily by a presidential airplane at the Air Force museum, Dayton, Ohio, Fall 1998

 

Our house during the snowstorm of February 1998. Linefork, KY

The view from the house looking out across the valley. February 1998. Linefork, KY

 

 

The view from the house about two weeks later. March, 1998. Linefork, KY

 

 

 

Barbara, Tristan, and Timmy in the churchyard at Linefork Baptist Mission. Emily would have ridden on my bicycle in the child seat. She and Barbara's bicycle must have both been out of sight when I took the picture. I'm guessing this is the summer of 97, just by some of the things in the picture. Linefork, KY

 

Martin's Fork Lake, south of Harlan, Kentucky. This was one of our favorite places to swim. The water was warm and clear, and the white sand was fun to play in. Barbara, Tristan, Timmy, Becky, and Emily. That's Tristan's backpack laying on the beach.

Looking down from our house at the head of the holler. The motorhome is the one my parents gave us. My old camping trailer, off to the left, went to my brother and his wife. Summer 1999. Linefork, KY

 

 

 

The motorhome next to the garage in the church yard after we moved it down there. Fall 1999. Linefork, KY.

The Power Ranger costumes I sewed for the kids for Halloween. Becky, Tristan, Barbara, Timmy, Emily. October 1999. Linefork, KY.

 

The kids running down our half-mile 'driveway' to the holler to go “Trick or Treating”. October 1999. Linefork, KY.

 

Linefork Baptist Mission, from the parking lot. Timmy by the building, Tristan and Emily out on the hill. That's our Jeep Cherokee between the church and the outbuildings. The main entrance of the church was the back door, facing my car. It opened into the kitchen, and the church room was the front part of the building, which used to be a house. The small building on the other side of my car is the clothing shed where the kids played dress-up sometimes. Summer 1999. Linefork, KY.