Changes/additions based on responses to update #4 from several of us and info from David's website - Tybee Island Current Plans - http://www.kayakero.net/per/gen/reunion/2000_current.html. - (you need user name (williams) and password (hendry) for access.) Read carefully, not only will this be on the quiz, you will be asked to provide more information!

Oct 19:

Brothers arrive in Columbia at Days Inn on Devine Street in time for dinner to which Leland will have invited our next door neighbor on King Street , Elsie Sutherland Rast Stuart.

Oct.20:

morning - brothers tour renovated State House and State Museum, have lunch and proceed to Tybee Island and check in at beach cottage (details on this will be provided by Juddie by Sept. 3) and/or DeSoto Hotel, an eight minute walk away. NOTE: see DISCUSSION/RESPONSE ITEM #1 below
others of us arrive

Oct. 21:

morning and early afternoon - the rest of us arrive
1 or 2 P. M - First Event of Big Hendry Reunion - Picnic (Savannah Shrimp Boil [or Frogmore Stew for Low Country folk] hot dogs etc. - paid for by Hendry Family Fund.
afternoon - visiting (Possible R.E. Lee consult for David with Ruth Hendry, Hendry family historian.)
evening - visiting

Oct. 22:

morning - Big Hendry Family breakfast at Tybee restaurant; church at Methodist Church where Juddie's brother, Enoch used to be the pastor
afternoon - visiting
early evening - all hands event - dinner at Williams Seafood Restaurant with all Savannah Hendrys as arranged by Gail
some of us depart

Oct. 23:

morning - brothers and others depart
brothers, as many as can, reassemble at E & E's mountain house NOTE: see DISCUSSION/RESPONSE ITEM #2 below

Williams Attendance Plans as of August 31

Loren and Sarah
Leland and Cornelia
Cooper and Barbara
Ellison and Elizabeth

DISCUSSION/RESPONSE ITEM #1

There are 27 of us now planning to invade TybeeIsland - more than will fit into the beach cottage (six or seven bedrooms and five baths). I offer the following scenario for your consideration. The scenario assumes that all of us will not arrive until Saturday, Oct. 21 and that some of us will depart on Sunday, Oct 22.

Friday - all present stay in beach cottage

Saturday - senior adults move to DeSoto Hotel, everyone else in cottage. Varied menu pot luck, self prepared dinner in cottage for all of us - including a re-creation of Nama's steak and onions(no Hendry event that evening)

Sunday - Those who have to depart do so, senior adults move back into cottage

ATTENTION EVERYONE: Let me know what you think about this scenario and let me know your detailed arrival/departure plans as you now know them. Thanks.

DISCUSSION/RESPONSE ITEM #2

Brothers, especially E & E. Loren and Sarah are scheduled for the mountain house, Cooper and Barbara can't come and Leland and Cornelia can come, but would prefer another time. E & E are planning to leave Tybee on Oct. 22nd to get ready for the rest of us on the 23rd. The Tybee Island affair has grown to be much larger and more stimulating than I had thought when we first began negotiating dates. It occurs to me that we might enjoy each other more if we were less rushed and postponed the mountain house visit. Please share your thoughts on this with me and each other. Thanks.

FAMILY HISTORY NUGGET

"Cousin Bobby", better known as Robert E. Lee, whose portrait as a young army officer and whose relationship to the Hendry family is presented in David's "Tybee Island Current Plans" website, has a Savannah connection. In the 1830's, as a lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers, he was involved in the supervision of the construction of Fort Pulaski, which was to guard the mouth of the Savannah river. (He makes a cameo appearance in Eugenia Price's Savannah, first book of her Savannah trilogy.) Casimir Pulaski was a Polish general who distinguished himself in 1760 battles between Poland and Russia. He then emigrated to what the British still thought of as "the Colonies" and joined our Revolutionary Army. The fort named in his honor was state-of-the-art at the time of its construction, but never quite completed. Military technology had changed by the time of its only combat test, when in December 1864, Sherman's artillery units, using long range rifled cannon, pounded it into submission. These artillery units were located on - you guessed it - Tybee Island.

Love, Cousin Loren