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Looking up at Thomas Jefferson he said "Oops, I lost me chunk".
Thus the place where Dabney Carr lost his chunk of wood became MeChunk Creek. Many stories are told about these two friends Thomas Jefferson and Dabney Carr. One was a promise by each that whoever died first would be buried beneath a large tree on the side of Monticello Mountain; Dabney Carr died first,
May 16, 1773, and as promised by Thomas Jefferson, was the first person to be buried at the Monticello graveyard.
For places named for the Carr family I find as follows: in Southern Scotland, the town of Carrstairs; also Carr's Islands shortened to Carlisle. In Virginia, Carr's bridge in Louisa County near the junction of Elk Creek and the North Anna River; Carr's Hill and Carr's Hill Road at Charlottesville; Carr's Ford; Carr's Brook; Carrsbrook Plantation on the Rivana River; Carr's Corner in Charlottesville, Virginia. There are many more named, from my mother's side of the family - Batesville from Roland Bates and Charlotte Carr Bates; Garlandtown from Colonel John Carr and Mary Garland Carr, and many more.
Many things that were fiction during my childhood days have now become fact in my old age. One thing we were told in science was that if man were ever able to break the atom, a chain reaction would result and destroy the entire earth; now we know better.
From a small beginning, with the advent of the steam engine, the internal combustion engine, and other inventions, I have been privileged to witness the progress of modern inventions to their present state of perfection. From the last days of the horse and buggy.to the landing of man on the moon, and unmanned space travel to the planets, all have been witnessed by me during my first eighty years aboard the planet earth. What can We expect from the next twenty-five years? With the knowledge of man expanding at such a fantastic speed, there is no limit to the accomplishments of man in the future. Fiction today will become the facts of tomorrow, progress so great that no person could forsee what the future will bring.
As Columbus in 1492 found a new place on earth to colonize,
I predict that by the year two-thousand, man will have found in space a new home to colonize. If only all nations would combine their efforts for space exploration so that the day may be hastened to where we would have a second home in case of catastrophe for the planet earth. Many times in the past the planet earth has been uninhabitable; this could happen again and our time may be running out, all speed ahead in space exploration.