Lunch With Hiroko, May 15, 1999
 
I drove up to Salisbury (an hour northeast of Charlotte) and met Hiroko on the Catawba College campus. Hiroko works at Catawba College in the International Exchange program. I spent two school years at Catawba College (1976/77 and 1977/78), so walking around the campus was a stroll down Memory Lane...
 
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may_15,_1999_11.jpg (124207 bytes) may_15,_1999_12.jpg (129973 bytes) may_15,_1999_13.jpg (143008 bytes) We went into downtown Salisbury for lunch...
 
may_15,_1999_14.jpg (137241 bytes) We stepped into the old Bernhardt's Hardware Co. on Main St. and found a pair of dungarees big enough for Haystack Calhoun!
 
may_15,_1999_15.jpg (167367 bytes) may_15,_1999_16.jpg (156250 bytes) may_15,_1999_17.jpg (77260 bytes) We walked on down Innes St to the Wrenn House, about where the tower is in the first shot. Hiroko played the piano along the way...
 
At the Wren House in downtown Salisbury...
 
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may_15,_1999_26.jpg (173182 bytes) may_15,_1999_27.jpg (136249 bytes) may_15,_1999_28.jpg (395525 bytes) After lunch we had ice cream at Spanky's and walked around admiring some of the many fine, old houses in Salisbury...
 
may_15,_1999_29.jpg (94994 bytes) may_15,_1999_30.jpg (126949 bytes) On my way back to Charlotte, around Concord, I stopped at this high ground and observed the Charlotte Motor Speedway, and the towers of downtown Charlotte in the distance...