Myrtle Beach - Family Album

Here are the family photos from Myrtle Beach 2010.  Don't forget, you can save these pictures to your computer by right-clicking and doing a save-as.

Myrtle Beach - 2010

I am finally getting around to placing some beach pictures on the blog.  I didn't take as many this year as in year's past - no particular reason really - except maybe I slept in more often than not this year ... :P

Visit to USS Enterprise

Part of the perks in being in Government service is being able to go to some places the general public is not apt to go to.  One such occasion occurred last week when a tour was arranged for some of us in the office to go tour the USS Enterprise docked in Norfolk Virgina.

CW Mason in the Civil War

Have been doing some ancesteral research and discovered that my great-great-grandfather (CW Mason) fought in the Civil War, having been mustered in South Carolina's Orr's Rifles on July 20th 1861 at Camp Pickens South Carolina by Lt Sloan at the ripe old age of 19.  He survived throughout, surrendering at Appomattox in 1865.  During my research I discovered he was wounded at the First Battle of Deep Bottom here in Virginia and fought in many battles during the war.  Here is a run-down of his unit, Orr's Rifles: