Minor McCrary's (James son) wife dancing the Virginia Reel

BENTONSPORT HOMECOMING

The result was amazing. So many responded that it was difficult to find lodging for out-of-town guests who stayed overnight. E. R. Harlan, then State Curator of Iowa, was the honored speaker of the morning program. Other speeches, interspersed by musical numbers, were made by former residents or their descendants. With Marion Warner, costumed as a schoolboy, the group sang "Forty Years Ago." Dinner was served cafeteria style on long tables set beneath the maples. So much fried chicken had been prepared that it was passed repeatedly through the crowd. In the evening an old time dance was held, and Mrs. Minor McCrary (James daughter-in-law), eighty years old, won a prize offered by the Ottumwa Democrat for dancing the Virginia Reel.