The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1961-06-30
LIVING LIFE OVER WITH A
GRANDSON AT ONES HEELS
hY VICTOR MEEKiNS

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past and recalling their failure to
spend more time with their boys.
So it was with me, for when my
boys were growing up. did not
have all the time l wished to spend
with them. l am recapturing some
thing / missed then by taking my
grandson around to places that de-
light child.
My grandson Warren is six years
old and will start to school this
year. For long time have want
ed to take him on a boat trip. The
oldest steamboat line in the coun-
try, still operates passenger boat
between Baltimore and Norfolk. AS
had for quite awhile been prom
Using I'd take him on the steamer,
/ took the opportunity Monday, to
take him by train from Washington
and we came down to Norfolk that
night on the boat. Boy-like, he in
sisted on sleeping in the upper
berth. He got great kick out of
eating on the boat, and he made
friends with a number of women
passengers who were sitting on
deck.
1 hope everyone who has the
chance will take some child on this
steamer, for like the many boat
lines that have passed out of ser
vice, one may wonder how long
this one may dig up enough bust
ness to keep in operation.
Earlier in the day we had visited
the Smithsonian Institute and it's
adjacent museum. He had seen the
first Wright airplane, and the
spirit of st. Louis" beside the
multitude of interesting animals
and so forth in the museum. We
had journeyed to the top, of the
Washington monument, which in
terested him immensely when he
viewed from its windows the Capt.
toll, the White House, the Lincoln
Memorial, numerous bridges and
the Potomac River.
Sunday was spent at the home
of General Bob Macon in lower
Maryland where we were enter
tanned on boat trip down the
Patuxent River to Solomons Island.
But what seemed the best part of
the journey to the boy was the
visit to the Washington Zoo on
Saturday afternoon. Nothing can
delight small boy more than ami
mails and there they were: the hip
pos, the rhinos, the elephants, the
monkeys and balloons, CRATES,
camels. bears, lions, tigers, etc.
etc.
We rode into Washington at
night, and young Warren's eyes
quickly recognized the capitol, it's
dome being fioodlighted and he re-
called it from witnessing it on TV
shows. He was anxious to see the
White House, which he was shown
from a car and later from the
height of the Washington monu-
ment. wish there were time and
= space to recount all the experiences
In the zoo and the museum, al
though it is doubtful if any fea-
lures of the trip are more memoir
able than the cruise to Norfolk on
the Baltimore steamer. He was
greatly impressed by the many
ocean ships in Baltimore Harbor,
the many others we met or passed
down the Bay, and the big Chesa-
peake Bay highway bridge under
which the steamer passes.
In the office of Senator Kuchel
of California, we found his execu-
tive assistant Warren Francis
counting the days until he can re-
turn on another visit to Kitty
Hawk, which he expects as soon as
Congress adjourns. He and his wife
are constantly press-agenting the
area. They were down on the
Coast early in the month.
Speaker Sam Rayburn's office
staff proved as friendly as their
boss. We met John Holton, his
front man, who married in the
Robertson family of Martin County.
'fMr Sam" often passes out good
words for the N. C. Coast which
he has visited numerous times with
Herbert Bonner and his predeces-
sor Lindsay Warren.
Senator Homer Capehart of
Indiana who has also visited among
us with his friend Ralph Deaton of
Kill Devil Hills was on a. fishing
trip but his office staff was charm
ing as usual. The young looking
lady out front, remarked that she
had two grandchildren who absorb
ed much of her time.
After leaving the Capitol, we
strolled over to the house office
building and relaxed on the couch
in the office of our Congressman
Herbert Bonner who sson came
in. The little boy was fascinated by
the numerous pictures of great
ships in whose launching Herbert
has participated as chairman Of
the House Committee on Merchant
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