Mar 23, 2025, Boonville Indiana relic show, a few images
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I was planning on attending but didn't want to drive that far with the weather we were having, Those ( Birds & Banners ) are amazing!!!!!
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It was a ways to go. The drive back Sunday during the storms was sporting.
My wife and I drove down Saturday morning, we had some additional things to do in the area. This describes it.
We had planned to do them Monday but instead did them Saturday afternoon since we had to get back for a meeting with her father's doctor. He is not doing well or expected to make it long. This was a brief get away. Friday after another long day at the hospital she said she had to get away for a while. I said let's drive to southern Indiana, hit the show and check out were your folks eloped. I was wildly curious about it. They never got a marriage license, and we have mailed to the clerk for a copy.
He was actually born in a barn in southern Kentucky, whose family was moving to Detroit for work during the depression, but stopped in farm area in Indiana. She was a waitress in a country diner his folks owned and operated. They met there and eloped in 1960. They first went to Kentucky, then to a small town in Southern Illinois named Shawneetown. (about 1 hour 20 minutes from the relic show area)
See Old Shawneetown, Illinois
it's a very long story, and this is just the highlights. But was wanted to see this place. How a guy from Kentucky, who lives in rural Indiana, goes back to Kentucky but does not get married there, but in a even smaller Southern Illinois town.
This is the OLD town on the river that flooded in the early 1930's.
My wife and I drove down Saturday morning, we had some additional things to do in the area. This describes it.
We had planned to do them Monday but instead did them Saturday afternoon since we had to get back for a meeting with her father's doctor. He is not doing well or expected to make it long. This was a brief get away. Friday after another long day at the hospital she said she had to get away for a while. I said let's drive to southern Indiana, hit the show and check out were your folks eloped. I was wildly curious about it. They never got a marriage license, and we have mailed to the clerk for a copy.
He was actually born in a barn in southern Kentucky, whose family was moving to Detroit for work during the depression, but stopped in farm area in Indiana. She was a waitress in a country diner his folks owned and operated. They met there and eloped in 1960. They first went to Kentucky, then to a small town in Southern Illinois named Shawneetown. (about 1 hour 20 minutes from the relic show area)
See Old Shawneetown, Illinois
it's a very long story, and this is just the highlights. But was wanted to see this place. How a guy from Kentucky, who lives in rural Indiana, goes back to Kentucky but does not get married there, but in a even smaller Southern Illinois town.
This is the OLD town on the river that flooded in the early 1930's.
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