Booth, the Garretts and an Invitation to Tea

[Jim Garrett]

The account of the ferry landing at the edge of the Lightfoot property is also published in a book on Port Royal. The story of the Inn inn Port Royal, I had heard a slightly different version from David Storke, mayor of Bowling Green, and former resident of Port Royal. The story is essentially the same. The business was closed and the owner had a colored boy on the porch with a pail of water and a dipper. The instructions were if strangers came by, they could have a drink of water, but couldn't come up on the porch. I find it all very credible.