Our Visit with Flat Stanley

Dear Tanner,

We are so excited that you sent Stanley to stay with us. We sure have enjoyed showing him around Kentucky. Recently our family has started to attend church in Carrollton, a little Kentucky town about an hour from us along the Ohio River. We decided it would be fun to take Stanley with us on a Sunday drive.

Carrollton is a small town with lots of history. Carrollton and Carroll County were named in honor of the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, Charles Carroll. The city is located where the Kentucky River connects to the Ohio River.

Crossing the bridge over the Kentucky River around 9:00 AM, when it was still very foggy on the river.

Liv, Nate & Stanley in front of the Ohio River in the morning when it was still super foggy so you can't see much, but the river was really close.

This is our church building on Main Street. It is an old hardware store that has been converted into a church. (If you look through the window, you can see Sam in there too.)

Afternoon, after the fog had disappeared. Olivia, Nate and Drew in front of the Ohio River.

Nate down by the river with Stanley. Can you see the boats on the river? On the other side of the river is the city of Prestonville, Indiana.

Nate and Stanley in front of a World War II memorial. It is on the front lawn of the Carrollton County Courthouse across from Main Street. The Courthouse was built in 1884. A plaque inside marks the high water level mark during the famous 1937 Flood. Coast Guard boats floated through the halls during the flood until the water became so high that they could not get their boats through the doors.

The rest are pictures from our drive. We drive a very windy, narrow road. We pass a few signs that remind us to share the road. Most Sundays we see a couple of horse and buggies with Mennonite (Amish) families driving on the road. We also pass an abandoned outhouse on the side of the road, but we didn’t get a picture. I think it might be haunted.

Thanks again for sending Stanley to us. We hope you come and visit us soon!