Terry and I spent the day in Maysville, Kentucky with Jerry Gore.  What a good friend and amazing story teller Jerry is.  I first met him in Ripley, Ohio, three years ago when he joined us on the first steps of the IN THEIR PATH journey.  I loved his booming baritone as we climbed the hill to John Rankin’s house.  “Trampin'." Trampin’ trying to make heaven my home….”

Today he graciously showed us the wonderful artifacts, and hiding spaces in his Underground Railroad Museum in Phillip’s Folly and he took us on tour of the Maysville area.  What a surprise finding a whole neighborhood of authentic log cabins plus the Charles D. Young log cabin that a group of preservationists hope to save.  This slave cabin is where Charles Young was born in 1864.  Young, a Buffalo Soldier, was the first African American to graduate from West Point, the first to reach the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and he is buried in Arlington Cemetery.  We may get a chance to visit the Charles Young Military Museum in Xenia when we visit the African American Museum on Wilberforce University campus next week.