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] » Hopsewee Rice Plantation Home Open To Public This Summer Mountville News BY MRS. L. R. ADAMS Hopsewee, a typical Low- Country rice plantation home of the early eighteenth century, is open to the public this sum mer. The historic home is located 12 miles south of Georgetown ot U.S. 17. Recently acquired by the James T. Maynard fam ily, the plantation was the home of Thomas Lynch, a South Car olina delegate to the Continental Congress, and the birthplace of his son, Thomas, Jr., who sign ed the Declaration of Independ ence. Lynch constructed the home between 1735 and 1740 on a bluff overlooking the North Santee River. Both father and son were dis tinguished political figures. Thomas, Sr., was also suppos ed to sign the Declaration of todependence, but he died en- route to Philadelphia. A space was left on the document for his signature. Hopsewee is one of the most unusual of the old plantation homes. In each room, including the kitchen, Adams candlelight molding is a part of the in terior finishing. The four rooms on each of the two main floors open into center halls that ex tend the entire length of the house. The house is built of black cypress on a brick foundation covered by scored tabby. Though the home has often been vacant, it has never been a- bandoned and is basically the same house built by Lynch some 230 years ago. At the rear of the old house is a large circle of camellias planted by John Hume Lucas who owned the home in 1846. The shrubs, which have reach ed a magnificent height, ap parently formed part of the plantation’s entrance. Lucas’ intention seems to have been to bring his visitors through a long driveway between rows of live-oaks ending with the camellia circle. Two cypress shingled out buildings probably served as kitchens during plantation days. Each house has a large fire place on one side of the chim ney and a double fireplace on the other. The division was for a hot fire and simmering fire. The Maynards stress that their purchase of Hopsewee is a preservation rather than a re storation. The home will be open Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and other days by appointment. Admission charge is $1.25 for adults, $.75 for stu dents, and children under six will be admitted free. Mr. Quinton Chapman of Charleston and Mr. Clyde Chap man of Sanford, Fla., spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Chapman. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Padgett and girls of Spartanburg and Mr. Jimmie Lynch of Union spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Lynch. Mr. S. B. Goodman and Mrs. J. M. Wham spent the weekend attending the wedding of Miss Sandra Goodman. The Baptist Church Bible School was held last week. Friday afternoon after the com mencement the children enjoyed a picnic supper. Visitors of Mrs. Blanch C. Badger over the weekend were Misses June and Jean Glass who are attending the University of N. C. Hone becotatmj VtM How Can I? 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Mr. Waits is immediate past president of the club. Making the presentation is Claude Lawson, a char ter member and former president of the club. Limey, Salary AH About Worts Sgt. Hanna's Unit Flies Largest Plane Staff Sergeant Fred F. Han na Jr., son of Mrs. Joan Reece of 28 Peachtree St., Clinton, is a member of the first unit to fly the world’s largest aircraft on operational missions. Sergeant Hanna is an aircraft maintenance technician with the 437th Military Airlift Wing at Charleston AFB. The Military Airlift Command (MAC) unit recently received their first operational C-5 Galaxy, a huge jet transport. The Galaxy entered service wity MAC, which provides global airlift for U.S. military forces, as a new measure in heavy logistical support. Its size, volume, versatility and performance are expected to make it the Air Force’s most efficient cargo transport. The sergeant, a 1967 grad uate of Clinton High School, attended Altus Junior College and Florida State University. His wife, Sandra, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray mond E. Botts of Rt. 2, Abbe ville. In the old days, sailors a- board ahips bound on long voyages were particulnrly susceptible to a mysterious illness known as scurvy, which is characterized by hemorrhaging, weakness and finally death. In the great age of exploration that follow ed Columbus’ discovery of America, voyages at sea grew longer and more numerous, and the toll caused by this dreaded disease increased ac cordingly. James Lind, a Scottish phy sician, undertook a study of the disease in an attempt to determine its cause. He final ly concluded that the lack of citrus fruit in the sailors’ re stricted diet was responsible. Lind’s studies were at first rejected as nonsense, until Captain James Cook ordered his crew to use lime juice a- long with their hardtack and salt pork during his great voyages in the 1770's. In three years of exploration, Cook lost only one man to scurvy. In 1795, the British admiralty made limes a part of the navy’s regular fare. The lime, in helping to keep the ship’s crew healthy, thus played a part in England’s eventual domination of the seas and the building of her great empire. Sometimes in derision, seafaring men from other countries would refer to a British sailor as a Limey. Eventually, the term came to be applied to all Engliahmen. If wages today were paid in accordance with the mean ing of the word talary, you’d be taking home a load of salt Because salt, in ancient times, was not as easily ob tainable as now, Roman sol diers received a special allow ance to buy it. In Latin, this food seasoner and preserver, which is also a necessary part of the diet, is called taL The soldiers’ “salt allowance” was thus designated as talarium, from which we get our word salary which applies today to all “fixed regul*r wages.” The phrase “Not worth his salt” also probably dates back to these times. Landscape was originally pronounced “landshape” and literally means “the shape of the land.” Back in the times when Old English was in use, the sA-sound was written not as sh but as sc, which in modern pronunciation has been changed to an entirely different sound. —NsMmmI fr*n She charmed her snake-catching hubby by losing 79 pounds "At 223 pounds, I was the hippiest girl in Jackson ville, Florida," said Wannette Davis. And she added: "If I had been a rattlesnake, my husband would have appreciated my size." Her husband, it so happens, catches snakes and sells them to reptile shows for money. Wannetre’s husband never embarrassed her in front of people, though. But at home, he’d kiddingly say: "You al] look like a short bale of cotton, Wannette.” Unfortunately, she never took the hint, because she really didn't think she looked as bad as she did. That is, not until she discovered Ayds Reducing Plan Candy and went from a 22Vi dress size to a 14. 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