Highway 38

The Oglethorpe Highway in addition to it's federal road department designation is also known as Hwy 38 because that is the number assigned by the Georgia road department. Therefore depending on the exact place  being written about at the moment I will at different times identify certain landmarks with differing  numerical identities. For that matter it is also known as The Old Sunbury Road my favorite of all the monikers.

At any rate I had the most wonderful blessing of having entered this world at birth alongside this road a stone's throw from the roads intersection with the Goshen Swamp.

I was born in My Mama and Daddy's. home locaed at what is now mile marker 10 on the Oglethorpe HWY East. It once was RFD 1 box 38, earlier having been simply Star Route Mcintosh, Ga.  Before any of that it was simply the Homer Smith place where Wyman May's father would as a favor drop off our mail on his transfer of the mail from McIntosh Post Office to the Hinesville Post Office. He drove an old Chevrolet pickup probably a forties vintage. The truck had a homemade wooden cover on the back of it. I recall climbing up on the bumper and pulling myself up by holding on to the top of the tailgate. I would watch with great delight as Mr May would reach into the back and pull out a big package from Sears &  Roebuck. My family had a unique mailbox which had been hand crafted by some metal worker. It was a box long enough to hold a rolled up newspaper or the annual catalog from Sears and Roebuck. It was probably about 16 inches wide as it was mounted parallel to the road. I'd say it was six or eight inches deep and perhaps six inches high at the front and seven inches high at the back. The top had a heavy duty lid which sloped down from back to front.

That mailbox became my observation post from which I would watch the world as it passed right before my inquiring young eyes. I am humbled that my sister and I still own this place where I was so fortunate to have been born.