Pleasant Ridge Plantation

53 Years Later On Aug 25, 1994, there was a meeting of three people that had not gotten together for 53 years. This was a surprise to all and started by a telephone call that I received from a lady in New Jersey who called asking if there was still a Carry Pond Camps and could anyone get to it now. The first part of the conversation was her stating that her Grandfather (Ernest Steele) used to own The Carry Pond Camps. As I was working there in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s, I recognized who she was and said, “Ginger where have you been for the last 50 years”. Her answer was “what do you mean calling me Ginger as no one except my Grandmother and Grandfather called me that”. I replied “ well, that is the only name I knew you by in those days”. Of course she asked me who I was. It was a shock to us both to find out that it was a coincident that one call could get 2 people that had not had any communication for so many years to be able to speak to each other so quickly being so far apart. She was only 13 years old at the time she used to come to stay with her grandparents each summer and I was driving the buckboard that was used to transport the mail and supplies as well as guests into the camp daily. At that time there was a post office at the camp and during the summer from the 4th of July through Labor Day there was a full house of guests at the camp, usually from 45 to 50 people and there was also another girl whose parents came each year for 2 weeks.