Warner M. Montgomery

Editor’s Note: At the request of his readers and in memory of Warner M. Montgomery, Ph.D, we will continue to publish his Adventure Travel stories for the time being. Linda’s week–long birthday concluded with a dinner on the historic Rockton– Rion train. The dinner was the finale to Dr. Rodger Stroup’s course on Railroads of South Carolina held at the […]

Editor’s Note: At the request of his readers and in memory of Warner M. Montgomery, Ph.D, we will continue to publish his Adventure Travel stories for the time being. “I’ve always wanted to take my boat from Brown’s Landing to Debordieu,” said John Jackson, former owner of Jackson Camera Stores and my Horrell Hill neighbor. “Every time I go to […]

Editor’s Note: At the request of his readers and in memory of Warner M. Montgomery, Ph.D, we will continue to publish his Adventure Travel stories for the time being. Linda and I took the opportunity of a free weekend in May to “Do Atlanta!” The main drawing card was Garrison Keiller’s Prairie Home Companion playing at the Fox Theater. We […]

Editor’s Note: At the request of his readers and in memory of Warner M. Montgomery, Ph.D, we will continue to publish his Adventure Travel stories for the time being. The doors to the Fox Theater opened at 5:45 p.m., and we were ushered in. Wow! What a theater! When it opened in 1929 the critics said it had “grandeur beyond […]

Editor’s Note: At the request of his readers and in memory of Warner M. Montgomery, Ph.D, we will continue to publish his Adventure Travel stories for the time being. My Uncle JK was a sailor. He served in the US Navy during World War II. When the war ended, he was discharged in San Diego. I was only six years […]

Editor’s Note: At the request of his readers and in memory of Warner M. Montgomery, Ph.D, we will continue to publish his Adventure Travel stories for the time being. Linda and I had a slight buzz from the drinks at Graycliff and the Caribbean sun didn’t help much, so we went into the nearby St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church to […]

Editor’s Note: At the request of his readers and in memory of Warner M. Montgomery, Ph.D, we will continue to publish his Adventure Travel stories for the time being. As we finished our tour of the new Art Gallery of The Bahamas, Anthony Jervis, the architect, said he knew the Lightburn (Lightbourn) family in Nassau. “One is a lawyer, one […]

Editor’s Note: At the request of his readers and in memory of Warner M. Montgomery, Ph.D, we will continue to publish his Adventure Travel stories for the time being. Last June, Linda and I had the privilege of visiting Youngstown, Ohio, for the annual convention of the International Association of Torch Clubs. Columbia attorney Ed Latimer is the new president, […]

Editor’s Note: At the request of his readers and in memory of Warner M. Montgomery, Ph.D, we will continue to publish his Adventure Travel stories for the time being. In addition to the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace, there were other reasons for Linda and me to stop in Staunton (pronounced Stant.n ), Virginia: •The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library •Mary Baldwin College […]

Editor’s Note: At the request of his readers and in memory of Warner M. Montgomery, Ph.D, we will continue to publish his Adventure Travel stories for the time being. My main goal in Juneau was to check out Tina Fey’s claim when she was doing an impression of Sarah Palin that Russia could be seen from her front porch, which […]