posted on October 2, 2001 08:35:17 PM new
Hi. Helen. I would e-mail you but I did not save your address. Sorry.
I just went down to P&E's to pick up newspaper for packing and I was asking them about a fire that occured day before yesterday at one of their tenant houses. (Actually the house next to "yours".)
When I saw the smoke, I ran down the road because I thought it was one of the houses but after seeing it was only two sheds (still a HUGE fire), I just came back home.
Tonight I ask P about it.
He has been telling me for a while that he had some old books that after they went through he would offer to let me buy the rest. These were antique books that were in the family (from an aunt I think, not sure if your family or another line). They had never gotten around to actually going through them as they intended.
So anyway, that is what burned. He said it was in his estimate about $3000 worth of wonderful antique books.
The sheds were as I said, behind the tenant house. They guy who lives there is one walking disaster after another, trust me.
He was burning trash in a burn barrel too close to the sheds with boxes piled next to them when it got out of control and took the sheds.
I am a book lover so I really hate that this happened at all under any circumstance. And I must say, if I move, P&E will be some of the people that I miss most so very sorry that it happened to them. I am sure that they were insured but the sentimental value was still lost.
Well, this may or may not be of interest to you. Just neighborly chit-chat.
What a disaster to lose all of those books. Probably the sheds were worthless but I'll bet it was a spectacular fire. I haven't talked to Paul and Edwina yet but I'll give them a call today.
I would love to have had just a couple of those books for sentimental value. Sometimes those "antique" books are really worthless on Ebay,
especially if they have been kept in a shed with humidity changes. I think that not long ago, Spaz had a similar problem with books kept in a garage and then when they were brought inside, the books warped.
Edwina gave me a very old school book, "The History of Mississippi"
that I am really happy to have. Otherwise, I don't have anything but memories of that area.
Thank you so very much for telling me about this, Terri. Although we have had some disagreements about religion, I am sure that we could be good friends in real life.
