Today we had a reunion event. A bus tour of the route our ancestor, Michael Israel, would have taken to the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780. The idea was a good one, but the execution meant a really long day on a bus.
We left our hotel at 7:30 this morning. We got back to the hotel at 7:00 tonight. In the mean time we wandered throughout seven counties in North Carolina and two in South Carolina. We experienced some communication issues between Ken, our family historian, and the bus driver. It made for some interesting detours. It did give us the opportunity to visit with other family members, whom we haven't seen in a year. And we visited some interesting places, such as Kings Mountain Military Park, where in October 1780, the Americans took revenge on the British for the massacre at Waxhaws. It was 96 degrees, so we chose not to hike to the summit of the battlefield. And we had a really good lunch at a little restaurant called Gregory's in Rutherfordton, North Carolina.
After our return from our wanderings we had our reunion business meeting. I now have a reunion to plan. In 2009, the family is coming to Oregon.
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