in 1802, and served numerous presidents among other society members. Makes sense, as another part of my family is Galt (name spelled without the "u") and they owned Galt & Bro, Inc Jewelers, which opened in D.C. Their clientele was quite the "who's who" list in D.C. Together, they cut the hair of many senators, congressman, and Washington elite. When he returned after 5 years, he married Esther and joined his father in business at the Father & Son Barber Shop on Pennsylvania Avenue, just south of Capitol Hill. Two years later, WWII began, and in 1941, Pop-pop enlisted in the Army, only to be sent to the Panama Canal. And from the time Pop-pop was thirteen, he took a position behind a barber chair in his father's barber shop to bring in additional money for the family, cutting hair like his father before him.Īfter Pop-pop graduated high school in 1937, the barbershop on the island was sold and his family moved to Washington, D.C., where he met Esther Mae Seiple, my future grandmother. Talk about ingenious! I admire the true survivors from that era, the ones who did whatever it took to survive and never gave up. My mother remembers stories told to her of how her grandfather would cut up old car tires to use the rubber in order to re-sole the shoes of his children. As with everyone, times got extremely difficult during the Depression. Through the 1920's and most of the 1930's, Pop-pop remained on the island with his family. Stay tuned for 2022 for more information on that.
The events surrounding that day will be a key highlight in the first book of my proposed trilogy for Harlequin. That very beach would be where the saltwater cowboys would drive the wild herd across the channel and onto Chincoteague to be sold at auction.
I can just imagine him as a young lad eager and anxious to race to the island's beach area where the water from the channel which separated Chincoteague from Assateague lapped against the sand. When Pop-pop was 6 years old, the very first official Pony Penning Day occurred. Pop-pop was the first of seven children to follow, nine altogether. and Carrie Jester Gault had both been married before but lost their respective spouses and brought one child each to their marriage. *grins*īut let's go back a few years to 1919, when my grandfather (Pop-pop as I called him) was born on Chincoteague Island. She also showed me a picture of her standing with Misty! You can imagine my wonder and awe at seeing my mother and her father as "famous." At least to a little girl, anyway. When I was a little girl, my mother read me the story of Misty of Chincoteague, then regaled me with stories of her father and how he knew Grandpa Beebe, Paul, and Maureen.
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