We went to one of the few remaining one room school houses in existence in the state...
It was a beautiful day with a few clouds dotting the summer sky...
The rusty old bell hasn't been used to summons school children to their studies in many years...
Can't you just imagine the teacher standing in the doorway as small to big, the children made their way through the door?
The modest school house sits just off the road and is surrounded by cotton fields. There wasn't a whole lot going on the day we were there but in a day when cotton was the prime crop and children attended school here, I can imagine that the little school was the center of a busy little Carolina town!
Our trip also took us to Lilesville to Chesley Greene's Pee Dee Orchard. You can read about Chesley at http://www.chathamjournal.com/cgi-bin/moxiebin/bm_tools.cgi?print=1188;s=6_3;site=1
You supposedly have not had peach ice cream unless you have been to Chesley Greene's place and I would have to agree!
The family all had delicious homemade peach ice cream and took some of their ripe peaches home to enjoy later!
A few of the peaches made a wonderful cobbler made in a dish I picked up at a little Seagrove potters shop...
The handiwork of pottery from Seagrove is like no other and it helps to know that every penny spent in Seagrove is definately on a "Made in North Carolina" product... even the clay comes from the North Carolina ground! I'm not sure which was prettier... the pie plate or the cobbler!
There are so many wonderful potters in Seagrove but my particular piece came from Cross Creek Pottery. You can read all about Terry and Vivian here http://crosscreekpottery.com/
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