Look at those plaid skirts!

Here are my grandma (on the right) and her sister on Knott’s Island, North Carolina in the mid-1940’s.

They lived in a Civil War era farm house, which was torn down before I was born. They lived in this house with no electricity or running water; they had an outhouse.

The small, isolated island didn’t get any power at all until the mid 1930’s. The kids rode a small bus across a causeway into Virginia to go to school.

I have managed to keep a few small pieces of furniture and an old mirror that date back to the old house. Not a day goes by that I don’t wish it was still standing so I could see it! ~shared by @elizabethandrus

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