Going Camping with Emery Holmes

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Bethel Holmes

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Going Camping with Emery Holmes

Papa use to put camping gear in wooden boxes on the running board of our car. He always had a dog. This wasn't Kid because we didn't have a car when we had Kid. The starfish on the grill was from a trip we made to the beach at Shelter Cove. We went with the Bowers in two cars.

Date & Place: 1927

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Bethel Holmes

Bethel Nadine Holmes of the gold dredging town of Hammonton, Calif. Author of "Peeks Into Sierra Pantries" & "Wood Chips To Game Chips, History of North Lake Tahoe Casinos." Retired from Univ of Nevada Library. Grandaughter of Samuel Jackson Lewis & Martha Love Barker and John Hughes Holmes & Clarissa Angella Laine. Descendant of Wm Braden & Euphemia Jackson, Van Rensselaer Holmes & Elizabeth Ross (dau of Ignatius), Melissa Sheral, Casandra Le Sueur, and James Barker & Martha Patsie Love Emmitt.

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