As usual, more and higher res shots of this trip can be found here.

After my class on Friday my parents picked me up at the airport after I returned my car rental.  We went to dinner at a BBQ restaurant with two of my aunts before heading home to Marietta.

The next day we watched the football game before mom and I went to the Marietta Veterans Memorial where several of my family members have a brick.

After dinner mom and I went out photo-hunting.

Before leaving on Sunday I went out and took more photos of some of the decrepit ramshackle tumble-down houses that dot the whole area now.

There would have been more pictures of poverty in the “dog patch” or “holler” near my parents’ house, but when we’d stopped on the road the dogs began barking and my mother was worried about one of the residents shooting at us.  As a consequence I didn’t have time to get a clean unblurred shot of any of the fantastic squalor down there in the woods by the creek.

On our way to the airport we stopped at the Ava Maria Cemetery where one (or more?) of my paternal ancestors is buried.