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Impact September 11, 2001 We watched Katie and Matt till noon. After a light lunch we drove west from Nags Head sixty miles west, then south for thirty miles more, deep into North Carolina's flat, swampy backcountry. We felt we were far away from terror and tragedy at Somerset Place, a nineteenth century plantation north of Phelps Lake. As we walked toward the mansion that housed the visitors' center, we passed ruins of slave housing, ruins of the slave hospital. We were walking in the past of America. At the visitors' center Dorothy Redford, director of Somerset Place, apologized. We'd have to wait for a tour guide. One guide had been sent home. Her sister worked in New York, At the World Trade Center. Stuart C. Nottingham |
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