November In North Carolina, Part 2
   
 
Tuesday, November 11
 
Mother's chemo treatment...
 
Baby Ralip against a Fall setting...    
 
 
Lunch with Sister Jan, Engineer Matt, and Firefighter Ryan, at Hamilton Manor...
 
       
 
       
 
   
 
Mountain Island Lake (across the way from Sister Jan's house), and a couple of neighborhood houses...
 
 
After lunch at Sister Jan's I drove to Windsor Park, in east Charlotte, the neighborhood where I lived from age 2 through 15...
 
The old Lett house...
 
Somerdale Lane... the old Thompson house is up the street, on the left...
 
The old Stinson house...
 
The old Chandler house...
 
The old Harris house...
 
 
4021 Somerdale Lane, the Thompson family home from 1960 through 1973. My oldest memories are from here.  My room was front corner, right of the big windows...
 
Directly across the street from 4021, the old Hinson house...
 
The old Washam house...
 
The old McCorkle house, with the Maxwell house beyond...
 
The old Windsor Park Swim & Racket Club, 5 lots up the street from the old home...  where most summer days and evenings were spent...
 
The old Pugh house, looking back down Somerdale from the pool...
 
I had a nice chat with Mrs. Maxwell, here in the rearview along with Mr. Maxwell...
 
 
I attended Windsor Park Elementary School, first through sixth grades.  The big tree on the playground was there way back when...  we used to run to it at recess...
 
My first grade classroom, on the right...
 
 
 
Thursday, November 13
 
 
The Country & Western Bill show at the Comet Grill...
 
Bill Noonan and Kyle...
 
Greg...  having recently moved back to Charlotte from Seattle...
 
Kyle and Pete "Pony Boy" Davis...
 
Will...
 
Johnny Trango...
 
 
The Country & Western Bill show...