Very interesting. I look forward to your next post.
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Liz Partrick's love and appreciation of The Old North State is vividly shown in these images. These important yet fading places remind us of a simpler time. Imagine the sunrises there, the sunsets, hardworking people taking care of themselves, their families, their friends and neighbors, many living off the land, beloved pets who shared these places, lives that began and ended within these walls. Thank you, Liz, for sharing these treasures with us. Keep traveling old dusty roads, with your canine companions by your side, doing what you love best, and reminding us all the while of the beautiful place we call home.
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The romanticized South, both good and bad, is really no different than anywhere else. We lived, We died, We struggle on.
I will always offer that what is at the core of all people, our People, is the land. That will will always be unique and remarkable. |
A lovely tribute to the class of the rural South!
My maternal grandparents has such outside Greenville, SC toward Easley in Pickens County, SC. Their family roots of Kay and Williams are deep and wide. I listened to family talk of all the relatives of influence: Head of the Sociology Dept. at Clemson / first County Agent for Pickens CO / Sheriff of Greenville / other business and civic leaders. Theirs was common sense brilliance birthed on the farm and diverted through the Great Depression and WWII. I pastored churches in County Seat towns where a wedding or funeral were services of cultured class. The folks with such houses "knew how to be most proper and sophisticated." Their children were taught proper manners and dress. They may have had only one set of dress clothes, but they made a tin plate picture of propriety when they chose! On the other hand, I had one church where the mountain cabin was the rule and mountain men came to town. It was a class act of people who "gloried in their ignorance." They thought it was great to forbid me to wear a robe at their daughter's wedding. For them, a pair of pressed coveralls as much formality as they could stand. When people, instead of appreciating an orchestra, can only criticize it as "high polluted," is a gaudy display of "crude." |
BCN's Movie Database: Wes Anderson | Disappearing South, I through Lens, The Arts | College Of The Albemarle To Present Steel Magnolias |
The real magic is heart pine main timbers --- even termites can't drill through it once it ages! Better than steel, my fiends --- the Southern homes last because of careful selection and quality wood --- and most of them had no plan beyond a drawing on a piece of paper by the owner/builder TEAM!