Flick has been spotted east of the Mississippi.

[Chris]

I had lunch with David Flick today at the Golden Corral in Newport News, Va. According to the pictures on his phone, in the past week, he has spent the night with Ole Dad, in Mouth of Wilson, and eaten breakfast with E.T., in Memphis. I haven't seen David in many years. It was good to see him looking so well.

[William Thornton]

Maybe he will take a southern swing.

[ET]

Yep, Flick and I had a good time at Cracker Barrel here in Mempho.

[Dave Roberts]

Wish I could have joined you all in Newport News, but I had an appointment in NC that day.

[Chris]

Our lunch was "spur-of-the-moment". David called my home about 10am; said he was in Virginia Beach visiting his son; David wanted to do the tourist thing and visit Jamestown. I happen to be on the route from Va Beach to Jamestown so I suggested a place to meet for lunch (close to I-64). We met at noon and got to spend about 1¾ hours together. Flick and I are within a couple months of the same age, but I forget who is the elder.

[ET]

[David Flick]

[William Thornton]

Super David. You look well.

[Dave Roberts]

That is quite a travelogue. Hope the next trip brings you through here.

[James]

I'm not familiar with the Logo either, but in my experience of driving around photographing churches, Appalachian churches of the Baptist persuasion topped by a cross on the steeple are usually Free Will Baptist.

[Bruce Gourley]

David, I am so glad you were able to make the cross country trip! You are looking good, and sounding good.

[ET]

Love that tombstone, David! Sad thing is that since such markers have fallen out of favor for flat ones, visiting a cemetary in the future won't be nearly as interesting as it is to view ones 100+ years ago.

Wish I could have made that trip to Jamestown with you! I haven't been there since my early teens, I guess. My paternal grandparents often led the family on summer vacations, and being schoolteachers, it was an unspoken rule that there would be some type of educational day where we visited something, often of an historical nature.

Glad to hear you've made it safely home.

[Ed Pettibone]

David, that is quite an interesting story. I am not the only one on these boards who may remember the buildings in your addendum. Photo 3 was the only one I recolonized immediately, it is the Alumni chapel at SBTS. Photo 2 is Norton hall which faces Lexington Rd., but that head on view is not what one typically sees. Photo 2 Is apparently a Mohler memorial that did not exist when either Trudy or I where there. I think it may be part of new conference center that was created by joining two refurbished Student apartment buildings (Rice and Judson) across Godfrey ave. from where Wayne Ward lived.

The west wing of Norton is Broadus Hall. BTW, Did you see the Boyce Library, the Honycutt Center, and Fuller hall Married Student Apartments, or the 5 connected dorms, Mullins Hall - Manly - Sampey - Whitsit - Williams? The building attached to the Alumni chapel would have been of interest to your son as it houses the V.V. Cook School of Music.

When I was there there in the 60's I lived off Campus, when I went back in 90, I lived in Manly Hall when Trudy and I married we lived in Fuller until we inherited a house full of furniture and we moved into the Springdale apartments where we had two bedrooms a dinning area, a galley Kitchen and a study. Truly the "study" was a large windowless walk-in-closet .

Trudy's Graduation in 98 was in the Alumni Chapel, when Bruce Gourley and I graduated in 92, our class was too large for the chapel and our graduation was at the Louisville convention Center downtown. The note from James reminded me to go back and look at your picture of the Alumni Chapel. Although it looks like a cross the spire is topped with a weather vane not a cross. However the one James mentions is certainly and I believe appropriately a cross.

I also found it interesting that your G-g-g-great grandfather, Christopher Flick Jr., was born 4 years after the Burnthills Baptist Church was organized.

[Haruo]

Be nice if you could be spotted northwest of the Columbia some day.

[Stephen Fox]

Just kiddin. Looks like he had quite ad adventure.

Can this kid whup the wrestler grandson?

[David Flick]

[David Flick]

[David Flick]

[Dave Roberts]

[David Flick]

[Dave Roberts]

I guess Hal has been tracking me doing interim work. First I was in Hampton for a year and a half. Now I am in Roanoke, but we still live in the same place. It just takes a lot more commuting.

[David Flick]

[Tim Bonney]

David,

Great to read about your trip and view the interesting photos! I tried to look up the logo on the Baptist church in question but I couldn't find one to match it.

One of my few regrets in changing church families is that it is pretty unlikely I'll run into any of you here on BL.com since I'm never at a Baptist meeting anymore. Sioux City is pretty far off the beaten path too unless you are heading for the Dakotas.