Woke up around 7:30 and after I took a shower we all went over to the Elms for breakfast. Hotcakes and sausage with 2 eggs, orange juice and coffee. Rick and I went down to the laundromat and store in the afternoon. Rick tried to get in touch with his pack with no luck. Leo left around 1:30. We decided that I'd go on to Elk park on the trail and Rick would go to Elk Park to get his pack by hitchhiking. So as we ran out of money or pretty close to it, we called home and ordered $400 sent to Hampton, Tennessee, where we will be 2 days after Elk Park, where we have $50 coming. Pretty poor day mood-wise for me. Took a long walk around Erwin - nice town.
[A bit of history about Irwin from Wikipedia since I don't have any pictures:
History
Erwin earned some notoriety in 1916 when the only known public execution of an elephant in Tennessee occurred in the community. Mary, the elephant, had killed her handler, Wallter Eldridge, in nearby Kingsport. As home to the region's largest railway yard, Erwin was the only community with the means to carry out the death sentence. An estimated 2,500 people turned out at the local railway yard to see Mary hoisted by a crane and hanged by a chain around her neck. The first chain snapped, but a larger one was found and the peculiar task completed - she was hanged for half an hour before being declared dead.
Between 1916 and 1957, the Southern Potteries plant operated in Erwin
along Ohio Avenue. The plant produced a hand-painted dishware known as Blue Ridge
that became popular nationwide in late 1930s and 1940s. Blue Ridge
pieces are still popular items with collectors of antique dishware.Mary being executed on September 13, 1916 before a crowd of over 2,500 witnesses at Erwin.
This is just too bizarre, but unfortunately it is true.]
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