Over a Century of Tours: Family Business

Over a Century of Tours: Family Business. What changes, and what stays the same?. , As children, Marguerite and Bertie Piatt knew Mac-A-Cheek as their grandfather's home. By their thirties they were living here and helping their father, William McCoy Piatt, give tours. Their family home had become a family business, which they continued after his death in 1927. Bertie and Marguerite remembered their father by carrying on his business and commissioning this stone relief of his image., Just as their father memorialized his ancestors in the souvenir booklet he published, Bertie and Marguerite sold fans commemorating family members' military careers. Like others during the Colonial Revival period, they connected their history to the early history of this country., While a visitor today might tag Piatt Castles in a photo on social media, Rev. Lincoln Long mailed this photo back to Bertie Piatt after his visit in 1935. Eventually, the family produced their own post cards for sale., Bertie Piatt was born ten years after Mac-A-Cheek was completed. By the time this photo was taken in the 1940s, she had managed the business through both World Wars and the Great Depression., When her nephews Bill and Jim, returned from world war two, they began a new chapter in the history of the building and the Piatt family., These tickets from the early 1940s show the addition of a war tax to the price of admission., How have traditions in your family changed from one generation to the next?