Elizabethtown also gave us a great time. As guests of the RC Hodgenville we visited the Abraham Lincoln Museum in Hodgenville, his birthplace and his boyhood home at Knobb Creek.
On Thursday the team and I all had great vocational days. I visited one of the three High Schools in the town for the morning and was given a tour of the local Wallmart by the manager in the afternooon. It was fascinating.
Yesterday we gave our presentation at a breakfast meeting - a 7am start! Then it was on to the town's history museum which included lots of Civil War history, then visited a Coca-Cola memorabilia collection, a vintage car collection, the Patton Meuseum at Fort Knox and had a tour of the army base.
Elizabethtown has a morning club, who hosted our presentation, a noon club, who co-ordinated our visit and shared some of the events and Ratcliff who organised the Fort Knox vocational visit and base tour.
Then last night we were given a farewell party at a Claudia's Tea Room, a historic house renovated by Claudia and her husband Charlie. Charlie's "shrimp boil" is legendary - shrimps, sausage, corn on the cob, garlic, onion, broccoli, carrots and potatoes all boiled together then turned out onto a paper covered table buffet! Followed by berries and icecream.
It's strawberry season here too - yum and yesterday on our way home Bob, my host, and I called at an Amish farm to buy a gallon pot of strawberries for $7 - sweet, juicy and fresh picked.
So we have new hosts tonight and an exciting programme for the next few days - watch this space!
Anne
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