Your Homecoming Committee wants to let you know the things we are planning for the Bush River Cemetery Descendants and Friends Homecoming, scheduled for May 16th through 18th in Newberry, SC. All of the details are still being firmed up, but here's the tentative plans as they stand right now. First, we are excited to report that we have reserved the Dewalt House in downtown Newberry as our Homecoming Headquarters for the weekend. www.thedewalthouse.com We think this will give us a great place to meet, get acquainted, swap info, or just sit on the porch all weekend. We can use the common rooms for registration and registration materials, displays, etc. In addition to our lunch and dinner on Saturday, we have three group activities being planned: a reception at the Gauntt House on Friday evening, a trip to the remnants of the Great Wagon Road on Saturday morning and, of course, a visit to the Bush River Quaker Cemetery early Saturday afternoon. Later on Saturday afternoon, we are thinking that some of us will want to visit the Padgett's Creek Quaker Cemetery in Union County and the nearby RoseHill Plantation. Other activities for Saturday afternoon (or for any time you don't want to join in the scheduled group activity) could be visits to the Star Fort in Ninety Six SC, to the Library in Newberry, to the Carter and Holmes nursery, to the Archives in Columbia, to the Bush River Baptist Church and Cemetery. We also include sitting on the porch and swapping information, and looking for the Gauntt Cemetery under the power lines on the north side of town. We haven't had a chance to do this yet, so please check times for SC Archives and Newberry Library if you are planning on doing some research at those places. There are copy places in town if you find that you have lots of info you want to swap with fellow researchers on your families. At dinner on Saturday, we will have a presentation by three of our members about the Great Wagon Road and how our ancestors traveled to Newberry, plus a brief report from the Cemetery Committee. (And on a lighter note: Ann Crowley also reports that there is an 8:00 pm show at the Opera House on Saturday night...check the listings -- 50s music and Elvis impersonator.) We still need your feedback as we finalize the plans...let us hear from you. We hope to have the registration materials out in about a month. Judy Russell, Ann Crowley, Susan Webber Planning Committee