Great shout-out from NRHS Chapter in Arkansas

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Jim,

A Google search answers your puzzle --- Link's parents are buried in the
same cemetery.

Mike Pierry, Jr.

On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 8:49 AM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> Really nice article; thanks for sharing.  I had the privilege of meeting
> Mr. Link at the back of the Mardi Gras on the first 611 trip from Roanoke
> to Bluefield in 1982.  You can never mistake that unique voice!  There was
> a line of people stretching from the vestibule door back to his table at
> the rear waiting to see him and buy items that he’d sign.  When we were
> visiting with family in Martinsburg about 15 years ago, we drove east to
> look for my grandparent’s site in Elmwood Cemetery in Shepherdstown WV.  I
> took pix of their markers but didn’t notice OWL’s headstone until I stepped
> back from their row.  Wow!  I have no idea why he’s buried there … was it
> due to fondness for the N&W?  Being from NYC, I figured that would be his
> resting spot.
>
>
>
> I grew up listening to his records and clearly remember the day my Dad
> came home from work when I ran to him with such excitement that I’d learned
> to read a couple lines from the Thunder On Blue Ridge record jacket.  I was
> probably 4 years old or so.  My Dad bought many railroad records in the 60s
> and 70s but the Link recordings were my favorite.  More than once, my
> pitiful little record player was cranked to full volume to hear the
> pounding Ys.  It’s a wonder I didn’t blow out the speakers!  I was born too
> late to know N&W steam so recordings and books would suffice.  I still have
> the record today … including the words I learned to read, underlined in
> pencil.  I don’t play the record now that I have a full set of CDs from the
> Society but can see the jacket just by glancing up from my desk and always
> have a flashback to that day about 60 years ago.
>
>
>
> *Jim King*
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> *From:* NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 29, 2022 4:41 PM
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> *Subject:* Great shout-out from NRHS Chapter in Arkansas
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>
>
> Jim Gattis is editor of THE SCRAMBLER, serving an NRHS Chapter in
> Arkansas. I was fortunate to be driving by the Depot when Jim was there
> taking photos, so I stopped, as some of us in the Foundation frequently
> have the opportunity to do, to offer some history and/or a tour. The rest
> of the story, as he says, is in an article he wrote for their newsletter.
> Jim has kindly provided us with full rights to reproduce and share their
> newsletter.
>
>
>
> Frank Akers, president, and ad hoc tour guide
>
> Rural Retreat Depot Foundation
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