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Photos on this page by Okey L. King

.........My wife Carolyn and I live on a piece of high ground above Caldwell, which I call the Koneigsberg, facing Sunrise Gap in beautiful Greenbrier County. My mother-in-law Lovell lived with us, but she past away in May a little more than a month shy of ninety. My daughter Joy, her husband David Price, and my grandson Jonathan once lived here also, but now they live by the Greenbrier River at Riverside Rest in Summers County.

My scanner simply will not do justice to my photo of the sunrise in Sunrise Gap

.........Our humble home from the the "tater" patch with White Rock Ridge towering in the background. White Rock Ridge sholders its way south until it is halted by Second Creek. Some of the high points along its crest are: High Top, Bogges High Top, Rich Mountain, Jones Mountain, and Boggs Mountain. The top of the ridge is so irregular that a person can get lost and, if he is not careful, come down the wrong side of the mountain and find himself miles from where he started. But, now much of this ridge has been ruined by development.

A view of White Rock Ridge from Honaker Cemetery Road late on a short winter evening.

.........This is the view from Kate's Mountain looking West through Sunrise Gap. Our home is just around the shoulder of White Rock Ridge which is at the left of the Photo. Greenbrier Mountain rises in the right-hand portion of the view.

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.....I made this photo about 1980 when my son and I went spring gobbler hunting on this trail on Greenbrier Mountain. Now the Greenbrier Hotel has closed this trail to the public. Notis the Sarvis blooming.

A snow covered country lane on the Konigsberg

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.........................Confederate Trench on the Konigsberg
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......Photo by Okey L. King
.....This is the old gate at the top of our hill. In the old days, they Bennetts would drive thier cattle to and from Coffman Hill through this gate.

This is a view of Greenbrier Mountain which rises to the east of the Konigsburg as seen from Coffman Hill.

..........I pastor the Peniel Pentecostal Holiness Church. If you will click on the International National Holiness Church Page which I have under construction, you will see a picture of the rural church building and you will also find my testomony. I also have a link to our church web page which is managed in Oklahoma City. Along with studying the Word, I spend some of my time relaxing with these subjects:
History, Genealogy, Creative and Historical Writing, and Geography. Also, every so often, when somebody pushes my button, I enjoy standing up and firing off a "Letter to the Editor.

..........My wife Carolyn is a eight-year survivor of breast cancer. The day that she was diagnosed was one of the darkest of our lives, but God, and our friends, have been with us. It was a crisis experience that brought our family closer together and enabled Carolyn and I to find an inner strengh, though the Spirit, that we didn't realize that we possessed.

Carolyn enjoys raising flowers and trying to plan a formal gardens. She is a good cook and a baker of biscuits which is more than I can say of many women. She is an "old fashioned girl" and is irreplaceable.

........I was awarded first place for one of my stories and had another story published in the Beckley Newspapers Golden Pen award. You will find one on the "Greenbrier Country Boom Days" and another on the "Country Life in West Virginia" Page