the kitchen, I stopped to make a cup of tea, then pulled the packet out of my desk drawer and sat in my favorite chair to read it. It was fascinating. My great grandmother, Martha  Lewis had grown up on a plantation overlooking the bay. She was the oldest child and the only one to stay on the plantation. In 1915 the plantation house burned almost completely to the ground. She and her husband built the house on Orange Street and sold most of the land. There wasn't much salvaged except the mantle from her father's study and a clock that had been in the family for almost one hundred years. Almost everything else was lost.

     The original plantation house had been built in 1741 and had been used by the British during the Revolutionary War to house officers...

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