More Southern Magic

Just off the phone with our man down in Robbins, North Carolina, who received my letter to him accounting for my side of this ridiculous story. "Wanted to talk to you about how to send this back to you without endangering the memories on the ... memory and everything," said the message, and the marvelous CFM actually proposed going down to Walmart and printing off all the pictures in case something happened in transit. I told him he might as well send it along and we'll trust in good fortune this final step. I sincerely hope we haven't heard the last of him.

One final note - he informed me that his family boarded the train at Southern Pines, North Carolina. According to Amtrak, that's a (scheduled) 5 hours and 42 minutes from Savannah. So the camera basically sat undisturbed for over 6 hours until the story's heros emerged.

It is a concatenation of events that continues to boggle the mind.