Super Day!

May 15 – Today Bill and I did some local “sight seeing”.  He checked Road Attractions and found a local guy who carved 2 of his trees into pliers.  One tree is just one pair of pliers but the other tree is 3 pair.  Bill pulled up to the curve and I was talking to my cousin Becky so gave Bill the phone and got out to get some photos.  Then I saw a man and his daughter come forward from doing yard work.  Uh oh, was my first thought.  I asked him if I could take photos of his trees.  He was very gracious and said take all you want.  Then he said I could climb up the triple tree and Bill took photos of me in the tree and our host.  Turns out he is the grandson or great-grandson of Mooney Warther, the famous carving gentleman who our dad used to visit and sit and watch him whittle and make knives and other things.  He carved the train cars of the Lincoln Death Train among other intricate carvings.  There’s a museum in Dover with his knives and the larger carvings.  Well, the guy whose house we stopped at is Dan Warther and he carved his trees with a chain saw and did one by the family museum and factor with 4 pair of pliers.  He was super nice and answered lots of our questions.  Before we left he told me t wait a minute and he went inside and brought out a tiny carving that opens into 3 pair of pliers and he signed it for me.  He said he ONLY gives them to people brave enough to get out of the car and come take pictures!

From there we went to the 4^th St Cemetery where supposedly the head of William Quantrill, a Confederate Raider.  He was from Dover and his mother requested him to be buried there but the story goes that his parts are buried in 3 locations.

So those were the highlights of our day!