Surratt Courier

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I am miserable with points of the compass directions unless I'm facing north or south, but I believe that the Garrett homestead faced north. Therefore, the post marking the northwest corner of the porch would be to the far right of this photo. The kitchen ell (or what is almost a lean-to) was on the northeast gable end. CORRECTION.....

I answered Rich's question while talking on the phone at work, and something nagged at me the rest of the day. Both Rich and I have given wrong information. First, Rick Smith cited the post being on the northeast corner of what would have been the Garretts' porch - not the northwest. I then turned around and compounded the problem by saying that that would place it on the far right of the photo (and to the right of the front door).

The whole time I was working on an Excel spreadsheet for the bureaucrats at work, the vision of the drawing of the dying Booth on the porch kept flitting through my head. In that drawing, Booth is lying to the left as you face the front door.

I finally looked over Rick's article and found that he had said northeast (correctly) and not northwest. Therefore, that post is near where the kitchen ell would have been.

P.S. Rick and Dave, please tell me I've got it right this time.