magnolia

southern crescent
new orleans to meridian

on the road

"I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of stream outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared, I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost. I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future, and maybe that's why it happened right there and then, that strange red afternoon." - Jack Kerouac

what'll ya have?

The Varsity
Atlanta, GA

spanish moss

Georgia pine and ripple wine
Memories of savannah summertime

McRae - Gene Theatre

Named for Euguene Talmadge, governor of Georgia from 1933 to 1937 and 1941 to 1943.

Greene County

The screen door to the farmer's porch
To the back porch, to the back lands
It's never left closed

Macon - Rose Hill Cemetery

In Memory of Elizabeth Reed.

Glascock County

February 16, 2009

August 8, 2009

mississippi delta

Scarboro - General Store, 1976 & 2008

Jack Leigh, Copyright 1976.

"On an old logging road, cracked and broken from years of neglect, where the red clay is slowly covering what's left of the pavement, Hazel Frawley's general store still stands. A short distance down the road, the skeletal remains of a wooden bridge stretch across the Ogeechee like ancient crosses in a forgotten graveyard.

Nothing much comes this way any more, but the little clapboard store remains open. Mr. Hazel has run this store for over forty years, and he can remember when he sold everything from coffins to candy. The shelves are virtually bare now, except for a few canned goods and several different sizes of wash tubs that hang form the overhead rafters. Those who travel the Ogeechee River have been stopping by the store for as long as anyone can remember, stopping by for a Moon Pie and an RC Cola." - Jack Leigh, 1976

Athens to Savannah, 11/30/2008

Notes from trip.

• Rain, fog. Football team has lost to Georgia Tech after winning 6 in a row.
  
• Monk House - Slowly collapsing, winter's coming. No trespassing signs have been added, more lonely than usual.
  
• Crawfordville - Jesus Saves mural still there, fighting the elements.
  
• Camak - Fog, passing intermodal train, white car, mansion, more fog.
  
• GA80 - Night. Pouring rain. J.J. Cale. 18 wheelers in gravel lot, illuminated by street light. Southern rail cars through head lights.
  
• Bartow - Antebellum lit up for x-mas.
  
• Wadley - Not photographed, old black man stepping out of club. One day I will take photographs like this.
  
• Scarboro - Amazing. Does anyone live there? I'll be back.

Orangeburg, SC - All Star Bowling Lanes

Orangeburg, South Carolina, February 6, 1968. Approximately 200 South Carolina State University students protest segregration of the All Star Bowling Lanes in the bowling alley's parking lot. Two nights later, protests move to the nearby S.C. State campus, where police fire into the crowd in response to alleged gunfire from protesters. Evidence that police were fired on was inconclusive. 3 killed, 27 wounded in "Orangeburg Massacre." Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, August 7th, 1996.