Christmas visit to Greenville December 24 and 25th 2009
1219 Battle St. This is the home of my mother‘s family. The Jenkins family has been since the lease early 1950s. I never saw my grandfather Milton. I’m not even seeing pictures of him. I believe all of the special family pictures were healed by my great aunt and who’s home when I was growing up. Is the apartment below located next to grandma‘s house. The place is very special to me. It’s been hours on that porch play games in the street with my friends in the neighborhood.
Places very special to me
During holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas, the Jenkins and Whichard families Went from house to house to enjoy the great cooking of my mother, great aunt Annie (we call her Aunt Sis) and my grandma. But my real fondness for this place was that for some reason in my last couple years of high school, I spent countless hours on Sundays of at Aunt Sis’swatching tv and reading.
The first time I ever skipped a high school class I spent in this house where I watched classic movies on the channel in New Bern, but more importantly, I would do my reading here. I was your member of the book of the month club and May have read a book by most fascinating writers of 60s and 70s every week.We lived on Bancroft Street 904A which was called Travis Lane. The number of times I walked pass this sign is mind boggling to me now. Eppes High where I went to school from the fifth grade to my senior year I could see from my front yard. The Smith family school teachers lived here
This is a picture of the house where my best friend growing up, Rene Laughinghouse lived.
A Culinary Odyssey 