Sepia Saturday challenges bloggers to share family history through old photographs.
The street view in this week’s Sepia Saturday prompt brought to mind a couple photos of my grandaunt Lillie Killeen. Whatever the story was behind the photos is lost to time. I was just going to share the photos and move on.
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| Lillie Killeen place and date unknown |
Then I noticed a log tower. That’s interesting!
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| Lillie Killeen with her niece Ebbie (revised: UNKNOWN) |
I googled “log tower” images but found nothing that looks
like this one. I will guess it is in Florida, only because her niece Ebbie
lived in Florida.
So, Folks, what do you think? Where were Lillie and Ebbie (revised: NOT EBBIE) on that fine day?
Hit the Sepia Saturday streets for more old photos and
stories.
UPDATE: Lillie’s shoes and glasses are the same as in another photo that she dated 1944. With that in mind, the other woman is not likely to be her niece Ebbie who would have been only about 25. And now that means the log tower could have been anywhere.
UPDATE #2: Thanks to a comment by Mr. Mike, I now know that Lillie and her friend were at the outdoor theater of the Lost Colony, an outdoor drama located in Manteo, North Carolina. Big tourist attraction! Here are some photos I found online. The log towers house the sound system and other theatrical controls like lights. They have since been covered in some kind of clapboard.
an old postcard 
from lostcolony.org
Wendy
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