EoT Painting and Adventure Club part II

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Despite The Search for Greasy Cove being a really confusing read, Ma, Popsicle, Mark, and I all read it. Mark’s grandmother had grown up in that area, so Mark kind of knew the roads that were mentioned in the book. We weren’t sure how to find the old Lutes’s house (in the book the author mentions that the house has rotted away but that in the winter [when the leaves and bushes are bare] you can still see the stone chimney.) We did find an old chimney, but it was close to the road so we figured that was a different house.

We did visit two old cemeteries. And we managed to find Mr. Lutes’s grave marker. I’m not sure the name of the cemeterey, in the book she calls it Steele Cemetery. I didn’t see a sign. But it’s next to a Methodist church right off HWY 11.

and by searching the Scarboro Collection http://collections.alabamamosaic.org/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=any&CISOBOX1=greasy+cove&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=all

you can see some old pictures of the murder site. (it’s not gory) the one that shows the house has an X under one of the windows. The author says that marks the room where the bodies were found.

The other picture is the group that helped search for the murder weapon. (hatchet?)

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