Changes/additions based on responses to update #6 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, this will be on the quiz.

Tybee Accommodations, Attendance, Arrival & Departure Times:

• ACCOMMODATIONS provided by Tybee Cottages (www.tybeecottages.com). We will have 13, 15, and 24 Captains' View for Friday, and Saturday and Cottages 13 and 15 Captains' View for Sunday night. Senior Adults (those who have grandchildren) will occupy #24 on Friday and Saturday nights and move into the 13 and 15 complex for Sunday night as our numbers shrink. Grandchildren should bring sleeping bags and be prepared to draw straws - or whatever - to determine who gets to sleep in bed or on the floor during the cousins slumber party. Everything is furnished except beach chairs and beach towels. The beach is a 3 minute walk away.

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:

brothers tour renovated State House and State Museum in Columbia, have lunch and depart for Tybee
afternoon, evening - remainder of Friday contingent arrives - visit, socialize, beach walk - make dinner plans and carry them out (pick up David & Sarah at AMTRAK or airport, if needed)

Oct. 21:

morning and early afternoon - Saturday contingent arrives
1 or 2 P. M - Hendry Family Reunion Picnic (Savannah Shrimp Boil [or Frogmore Stew for Low Country folk] hot dogs etc.) - we are guests of Hendry Family Fund - 15 minute walk from cottages
visiting etc. (Possible R.E. Lee consult for David with Ruth Hendry, Hendry family historian)
evening - varied menu, pot luck, self prepared dinner for all of us - including a re-creation of Nama's steak and onions - at 13/15 Captains View.

Oct. 22:

morning - Big Hendry Family breakfast at Tybee restaurant; church at Tybee Methodist Church where Juddie's brother, Enoch, used to be the pastor
Dinner after church at Williams Seafood Restaurant with all Savannah Hendrys as arranged by Gail and Wanda (granddaughter-in-law of Tom Williams, founder of the restaurant). There will be 27 of us to dine with an as yet undetermined number of Savannah Hendrys.
some of us depart. Senior Adults (who will have moved luggage out of 24 into 13/15) settle into space vacated by Carolee, Doug, Alex, Stuart, Steve, Helen, Aaron, Lee, Wendy, Carol Ann, Alicia, & Elizabeth Joy and plan evening activities with incumbent residents

Oct. 23:

morning, afternoon - brothers and others depart (check out from cottages is probably 12:00)

Family History Nugget

Some of you have read Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation. Let me tell you a little bit about MY favorite uncles and World War II (subject to correction and elaboration by Savannah Hendrys). Juddie served in the Army Air Force as an air traffic controller or tower operator at an Air Force Base in the Hudson Bay area of Canada. That base was one of several that provided an air supply route over the North Pole from the USA to Russia.

George served as a medic in the US First Army, under General Courtney Hodges, in its final push across Germany between armies commanded by two of the more flamboyant generals, Patton and Montgomery.

Pete took part of his Army training at Fort Jackson, outside of Columbia, and he and Aunt Lil stayed with us on King Street. Following training he went to Europe and served with the 8th Infantry Division on the northern shoulder of the Battle of the Bulge. He was killed in action in December, 1944. School girls from The Netherlands adopted U.S. Army grave sites to care for them. My parents met the then young woman who cared for Pete's grave site when they visited there in the '60's.

Love, Cousin Loren