What: Coonskin Picnic
When: Sunday July 14, 2002 9:00 AM until closing.
Catered Lunch will be served at 1:00 PM.
Menu: West Virginia's Best BBQ Ribs, Marinated Grilled Chicken Breasts, All Meat Hot Dogs, Baked Beans, Macaroni Salad, Assorted Cookies, Fresh Fruit Salad, Iced Tea, Lemonade, Bottled Water, Sodas, All Serving Supplies.
Beer, wine, etc is BYOB and must be in compliance with Park Rules. (The rangers will let you know if you break them.)
Where: Coonskin Park Shelter Number 15 (Up on the hill)
Kids six and under are free, but need to be accounted for.

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Charleston's Coonskin Park was the venue - woods, shelter, and catered food.
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Speaking of catered food; right on time, Joey's is on the scene.
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...as are the first of the party-goers.
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The gathering crowd waits patiently for the dinner bell.
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The Coonskin shelter protected us from the slight amount of remaining rain for the weekend. 
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Comparing notes, song lyrics, stories, memories.
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Kris Sales Dunlap and Ellen Lilley converse.... 
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...and listen
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"Do you remember...?" -- "I'll never forget..."...
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Randy Rice and family take in the Coonskin facilities -- See Randy's site at www.wrandyrice.com/camp. I know, they look a little dubious, but really had a good time. Thanks for the help, Randy!
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Food's on!
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Scott Mease (with soft-drink), one of the organizers for the reunion, chats with a couple of generations of picnickers. Lee Ann van Meter is to the right.
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Betty McGinnis and Kris Sales Dunlap
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Reviewing the Gazette-Mail articles on Sunday, July 14.
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The crew gets down to serious business!
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The crew gets down to serious business!
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The crew gets down to serious business!
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After dinner, the scrapbooks come out and the talk returns to camping and remembering.
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The crowd overflowed the shelter! I think I see Nancy Duty there on the left.
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A quick snapshot of a page from Kris Radford's scrapbook. More to come!
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Kris Radford lent the Cliffside bugle-call record, and we'll post those calls in the Cliffside section!
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----- and Kris Sales Dunlap.
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The next generation takes over the water fountain... Stephen Wiles here... 
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...along with friend Trey Waldron.
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...both soon to be soaking wet...
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...a demo...
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...and a little help.
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The diehards hang on 'till the last. With brief comments, a promise of an even better event in five years, and toasts to absent and fallen friends and to Union Carbide, the 2002 reunion is history, adding to the memories.

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