GALLERY OF PHOTOS — click a thumbnail for a larger version    Curtis Ridge
	Here's a family heirloom:  one of a set of 12 coin-silver spoons (six teaspoons and six tablespoons) that Mary Curtis purchased in 1865.  The 14-year-old farm girl had strung tobacco to earn the money. Seventy years later (see photo), two years before her 1937 death, she sold the family farm.  She gave the spoons to her granddaughter Ann Buckingham, who became my mother and later purchased a display case for the spoons.  In 1956, I typed up the brief history on a card we taped to the back of the case, which now hangs in my kitchen.