There’s only one story in Chapter 7: Travels of The Immigrant and the Outlaw. It’s called Stonehenge and the Summer Solstice, a humorous episode when a teenager and his mother outvoted three other people in order to get to visit the ancient site.
Favorite Guy and I have been to it twice, the second time when my mother wanted to see it because her grandson had been there a decade earlier and still talked about it.
After sisters Doris and Darlene began to plan their trip to France “to see where brother Danny is buried,” the travel planner led us through ideas of what the sisters would also like to experience since it would probably be their only overseas trip. These farm widows were in their late seventies.
Paris, Versailles, the cemetery in eastern France, Belgium on the way to England, London, Bath, Stonehenge!
Guy and I were their support team. Framed photos of the four of us were a fond souvenir for all of us when we returned home, along with those from the grave of Daniel S. Wilson at the Lorraine American Cemetery, St. Avold, France.
The Stonehenge story in The Immigrant and the Outlaw was first published in The Dallas County News in June of 1996. The punch line was a result of a question a cabbie asked us after we’d walked around the famous rocks.