The beginning:
The tents are up
Some of the crew:
Jan & Jim Pifer
Juanita Hastings working on party favors after a wonderful dinner of pizza.
Some of the mess (preparations):
Jan (head chef)
(above pics by Steve Taylor)
THE DAY OF:
The Taylor cousins
(pic by Jim Pifer)
Everything is ready
(pics by Steve Taylor)
James Taylor II & wife Martha Thompson Taylor cooking spring lamb stew (actually it’s Jan Pifer & Bill Thomas–pres. & v. pres.)
(pic by Fred Prisley)
Party favor at each place setting. Inside the scroll is the story of the Knights of the Golden Horseshoe. See Wikipedia: Knights of the Golden Horseshoe
One of the cakes (icing cracked as it was sitting out)
(pic by Pamela Felton)
Honorary Pres. & Historian Helen Marie Taylor
(pic by Jim Pifer)
(pic by Jim Pifer)
View from the living room of the Quarles part Bloomsbury looking north
(pic by Pamela Felton)
The marker at the camp of Gen. Robert E. Lee on Bloomsbury property about a mile walk from the house through the fields west toward Orange
(pic by Steve Taylor)
Transcription: General Robert E. Lee’s Army Headquarters was located on this site during the winter of 1863-1864
James Taylor I (the elder) 