Milford chronicle., 1957-08-30
1881 AIav5
Topeka, Kansas
Anggst "a. 1857

Topeka, Kansas
Auggst "a. 1857
Dear Friends:
1t seems like more than eleven
days since we were on Delaware
soil. Time quickly slips by, doesn't
it? This summer has really flown
and in just a matter of days our
two daughters will be entering the
second and fifth grades. Kansas
has excellent schools-tfiiiee only
draw back here is that we have to
furnish them with complete school
supplies. Not just paper and PEN
ell, but every single book they use
in school. It amounts up to a few
dollars, / can tell you, with two
children. Their school begins SoD-
tember the fifth and I will have to
transport them back and forth,
about two miles in distance, all
of September, to a new school until
we are settled in our new house
August the 9Th, Hayes, Gladys
Dickerson, our sister-in-law and
landed at Williamsburg Airport.
Virginia. Eleven years ago Hayes
and ! had spent one day of our
honeymoon at williamsburg and
we were anxious to see this lGEPeeilsyF
colonial town again.
| believe / told you in my col
umn last week about landing at
this small, but nice airport and
finding no one there. Our cas-
tern daylight time made us arrive
at an early hour (they were on
standard time) and we were ahead
of all the Virginians all day-meals.
etc. We looked into the airport
office and could see phone sitting
on the desk, but couldn't do magic
and make the locked door open.
Gladys and | had cleverly worn
low, fat shoes this day so when
Hayes said we'd have to walk a
half mile to the highway we were
ready to go. Some one along the
way said the bus would come by
every two hours and we were not
in a position to waste all that time
so we began thumbing ride. Sew
eral cars passed our trio by. |
stood back and gave us a non-bi-
ased once over and though we didn't
look that bad and just then car
stopped for us. 1t was New York
couple on their way to jamestown
for the day and when we told them
we were headed for Williamsburg
they suggested we stop at the IN
formation Center outside of town.
The New York couple, as it hap
pened, were doing us a favor, but
couldn't understand why they left
us OUTSIDE of town when they
saw that we had no car for trans
pOrtation. Something new had been
added since our trip IL years ago.
'Tis true the Information booth
seemed to make williamsburg more
commercial, but williamsburg
needed to be more organized" for
the thousands of tourists it handles
weekly and I believe the day we
were there it could easily be that
many there daily!
The Information Center is a beau
tiful brick building with a long
facade leading on one side to the
large parking area and on the op-
posite side to the line of buses.
In the Center at regular intervals
they show the story of Williams
burg in a movie version. At this
center you may obtain tickets for
jamestown and tickets to go to any
single building in Williamsburg or
a combination ticket that permits
you to enter all the buildings. We
three bought the combination tic
ket and soon we were boarding the
free bus to Williamsburg. If this
commercial center has accomplish
ed nothing else it's provided real
service to tourists by running this
bus to the colonial section of Will
liamsburg. There is a free bus
coming or going every five min