tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-243121002024-03-13T13:01:59.324+01:00archivalienarchivalienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09622310228333791819noreply@blogger.comBlogger324125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24312100.post-33267888795806885142017-08-07T18:04:00.000+02:002017-08-07T21:50:37.721+02:00Home Sweet Home Alabama<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Back in Germany for three weeks now I treasure some memories of my stay in Greensboro. Jessie Lavon's painting has found its place among my precious Dorothea Lange prints. The gift of the Alabama cutting board has been placed in the kitchen and the magnet – bought on the last trip to Alabama in 2013 – still sits on the fridge door.<br />
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<br />archivalienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09622310228333791819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24312100.post-16099890970886780332017-07-13T22:38:00.001+02:002017-07-13T22:38:28.896+02:00Kudzu<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Before going home I have to still post one major item I encountered in Alabama: Kudzu. Kudzu is an invasive plant brought to the US from Southeast Asia in 1876 for the Philadelphia Continental Exposition as an ornamental plant and shade producer.<br />
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In the 1930s it was planted to reduce soil erosion in the US South.
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It spreads very rapidly, takes over plants, ravines, trees, power lines, and even houses and has no use in the US today. In Asian countries the roots are used for medicine, and flowers are used for a sweet jelly.<br />
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On my last full day in Greensboro I was able to get a private showing of the inside of the Greensboro Opera House. In the late 19th and early 20th century opera houses were constructed throughout the rural south as cultural centers for passing theater groups, dances, town hall meetings, and the like. The first floor was usually used as retail space, the auditorium with a stage and a balcony was situated on the second and third floors (for my German readers: the first floor in the US is the ground floor, the second floor is the German first floor).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">An old picture of the Greensboro Opera House. <br />
The store to the right burnt down on new years eve in the late 1980s.</td></tr>
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With the decline of the rural south these opera houses were abandoned, in many towns they were torn down after being left empty for decades. The Greensboro Opera House was built in 1903 to replace its precursor that had been built in 1890 and had burnt down. When movies started, the Greensboro Opera House was the first movie theater in town before a building solely for this purpose was built on Main Street. When Walker Evans and James Agee came to Greensboro in the summer of 1936 the Opera House must have still been used. Supposedly Walker Evans took a picture of two men in front of the Greensboro Opera House. Shortly after it was abandoned and probably closed on the eve of World War II.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Walker Evans: probably photographed in front of the Greensboro <br />
Opera House. I could not locate
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The Greensboro Opera House was left unused for decades. However, before being closed completely, stores occupied the first floor. When the space was opened to fit a single retailer, separating walls were removed and the stairs, that used to be accessible directly from the sidewalk to go upstairs without entering the stores, was removed and boarded. The upstairs halls were left empty without the possibility to enter them (except for youths who would climb up the neighboring roofs and enter the second floor through the windows until they were boarded). It is unknown if the Hitler-graffiti really dates to 1945 or if it was put up later.<br />
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Thus the upstairs venue fell into a deep sleep and survived without being vandalized. In 2003 people of Greensboro started an initiative to rehabilitate and revitalize the building. They bought it and started fundraising which eventually led to the current state: The first floor has been rehabilitated and a new staircase has been put in.<br />
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The second floor will be restored eventually just as the balcony which was removed when the retail stores downstairs wanted to put business signs on the facade. When the auditorium was remodeled to fit film projection (or when sound film was introduced) the tin ceiling reflected the sound in an unwanted manner. It was covered with cut-up cotton sacks therefore it is very well preserved today.<br />
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Upstairs many things were found: old signs, some of the original chairs, the original chandelier, the old coal stoves, old movie programs, and more. Even the old metal rails of the balcony survived there.<br />
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Next year the state of Alabama will celebrate its bicentennial. On this occasion composer Joseph Landers was commissioned to create an opera which will be <i>Let Us Now Praise Famous Men</i>. Hopefully there will be a preview held in the Greensboro Opera House although the auditorium will probably not be finished.<br />
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<br />archivalienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09622310228333791819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24312100.post-75812410251744120792017-07-10T20:46:00.001+02:002017-07-10T20:46:35.045+02:00Civil Rights in Rural Alabama II<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Many people know about the Voting Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, especially since the movie <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020072/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1" target="_blank">Selma</a> came out in 2014. But I didn't know that it were events in the Alabama Black Belt that led to eventually three marches in March 1965.<br />
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The Selma voting rights campaign had started in early January led by Martin Luther King and other activists. It also extended into neighboring counties such as Perry with Marion as the county seat. Marion is about 20 miles (30 km) east of Greensboro.<br />
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On February 18 a march was led from the Zion United Methodist Church in Marion – across the street from the county courthouse – to the county jail that was situated just a block down the street to protest the arrest of James Orange, one of the activists. However, when the protesters exited the church, officials blacked out all city lights in the area and Alabama state troopers started to attack the crowd with clubs.<br />
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Seeing the original locations in Marion I was surprised to find all the sites gathered around the courthouse building on just one block directly in the center.<br />
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The young deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson with his mother and his grandfather fled to a café behind the church. But police entered the café and started beating people there. Jackson tried to protect his mother from police brutality and was shot from short range. He died a week later in a Selma hospital.<br />
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On March 7, 1965 around 600 people gathered at Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma and marched toward and across the Edmund Pettus Bridge across the Alabama River. Once they reached the other side and crossing the county line protesters were met by state troopers and county police who violently dispersed the crowd, using clubs, tear gas, dogs, and officers on horseback. This became to be known as the Bloody Sunday. Pictures went global and are still well known today.<br />
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Shocked by the violence many people around the US came to Selma for a second march held on March 9. This march became to be known as "Turnaround Tuesday" as the crowd, led by Martin Luther King, walked across the bridge, knelt down and returned back to the church without crossing the county line. That same evening the KKK attacked white participants of the march, one of them died to days later.<br />
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The Pettus Bridge in Selma is very famous. But I never read anything about the bridge's name being a statement in itself. Edmund Pettus, a confederate general during the Civil War, was named Grand Dragon of the KKK in 1877, the final year of reconstruction.<br />
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<br />archivalienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09622310228333791819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24312100.post-84927789984049393712017-07-08T06:04:00.000+02:002017-07-08T06:04:05.862+02:00Civil Rights in Rural Alabama I<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0BzXDbmI6L8/WV-oXr1828I/AAAAAAAAED4/c3h_ZRcm8TEG6lc3sUzQzaQ2lTSQQo3sACLcBGAs/s1600/_DSC5110_doppel.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="1226" height="130" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0BzXDbmI6L8/WV-oXr1828I/AAAAAAAAED4/c3h_ZRcm8TEG6lc3sUzQzaQ2lTSQQo3sACLcBGAs/s400/_DSC5110_doppel.jpg" width="400" /></a> <br />
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Until learning more about the Civil Rights Movement in rural Alabama I only knew about the events in Birmingham, the March from Selma to Montgomery, and other activities in larger cities. However, the Civil Rights Movement had a strong presence in smaller towns and communities in the Alabama Black Belt.<br />
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In 1965 there was a protest march in Greensboro when the African American community demanded the right to register to vote and marched from St. Matthew Church on Morse Street to the Greensboro Courthouse. They were not admitted in and the police demanded that they go home. Eventually the gathering was dispersed, there are differing accounts whether violence was used.<br />
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The white people of Greensboro watched and most of them were indignant about this event.<br />
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The African American community would ask for permission to march again on Main Street, but permission was denied. A barrier was set up at the corner of Morse and Main Street as not to permit the gathering to proceed on Main Street.<br />
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The African American community and some white activists from the North gathered at the barrier for a few days. There were always people at the barrier. After watching on for a while the police asked for support from Selma and one day buses arrived to arrest all the protesters and bring them to jail.<br />
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Accounts say that some were brought to jail in Selma but as there were too many people some were held in Greensboro and some close to Uniontown in a structure that was usually used for chain-gangs of prisoners who worked on the highway. Before being carted off they were given white sheets of paper to write down their name, date of birth, and where they were from. They were photographed holding those papers.<br />
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I learned about these events on my visit to the Greensboro Safe House Black History Museum, a small museum run by the former Civil Rights activist Theresa Burroughs.<br />
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The museum is located in two shotgun houses that have special meaning to the African American community as it was here where Martin Luther King was kept safe after delivering a speech to the Greensboro community in 1968. The Ku Klux Klan threatened to kill him once he tried to leave the city and drove around armed in their pickup trucks. Two churches burnt that night that were located in direction where Mr. King might have been able to leave Greensboro. But as that seemed impossible Theresa Burroughs and her family hid him in their house. This was two weeks before Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.<br />
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With the help of the rural Studio the two houses were converted into a museum – connected by a glass hallway – displaying many items linked to the history of African Americans in rural Alabama.<br />
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The 4th of July celebration in Greensboro took place mostly in private. The city decorated Main Street with flags, but there was no parade, and no official fireworks. People had their own family reunions or barbecues and set off their own fireworks whenever they felt like. The staple dish here in Greensboro is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_butt" target="_blank">Boston butt</a>, which is cooked/smoked for many hours. Being a vegetarian I missed out on this one.<br />
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The neighboring town of Sawyerville held its annual 4th of July parade
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The parade moved along a county road and then turned to end in a park that was donated by the family that organizes the parade. Awards were presented to people who were actively involved in the community or the parade and eventually there was food.<br />
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<i>The Greensboro Watchman</i> is the local newspaper that is published weekly since 1876. Today it reports news from the community, presents people and places and gives room to obituaries.<br />
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The paper is printed on an old reel-fed offset printing machine situated directly behind the office.<br />
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In the back room of the office one can find yearly volumes with all the issues back to the newspaper's beginnings. Unfortunately these are kept in an non-archival environment.<br />
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I had the chance to look into the book of the year 1936 because I was curious if anything was reported on the presence of Walker Evans and James Agee in Hale County. By just leafing through quickly I didn't find anything. But maybe they were mentioned in the people's section. It would need a more thorough research to find that out.<br />
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In the 1930s, however, <i>The Greensboro Watchman</i> not only reported local news but also national and international events, even though especially the ongoing drought in Hale County was a big issue.<br />
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<br />archivalienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09622310228333791819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24312100.post-59830465570977942112017-07-05T03:43:00.000+02:002017-07-05T03:50:17.262+02:00Dear Mr. Evans,<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As my time in Greensboro is running out, I have to admit, I did search for some of the locations where you took some of your photographs. As I always liked the picture of the gas station/post ofice in Sprott, Alabama, I decided to drive there last Sunday. Sprott is situated in neighboring Perry County.<br />
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1935 or 1936, courtesy <a href="http://loc.gov/">loc.gov</a></td></tr>
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Today it is basically a crossroads and nothing else. The old building is not there anymore and the one that took its place is closed. Across the street there are some old barns falling apart. There is nothing that could be defined as a town, no post office or anything else except for roads. When I kept driving, Google suggested to take a street that is basically inexistent, overgrown with shrubbery.<br />
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I have no idea what happened to the church that William Christenberry photographed and constructed as a sculpture, as it seems to be nothing there. I checked some satellite pictures and found a church that from above looks more like a barn than like the nice old structure with the two spires.<br />
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Another picture I really like is the one of the McCollum Grocery on Main St at the corner of Beaacon St. The building has seen some changes – back in 1936 there were two stores in this building and today the corner has been remodeled. The building is unoccupied at the moment. The street light is still at the same spot, though.<br />
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I have tried to find out when the balconies on various buildings on Main Street were taken down, but so far nobody was able to answer that question. It must have been some time between 1936 and the early to mid-fifties.<br />
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Boardinghouse, Alabama, 1936, courtesy <a href="http://loc.gov/">loc.gov</a></td></tr>
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It is not easy to restore old buildings like this, but there are people who try to do whatever needs to be done. The building on the right is the <a href="https://archivalien.blogspot.de/2017/06/greensboro-hotel.html">Greensboro Hotel</a>.<br />
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I also tried to find out, if the cotton gin in Moundville still exists. Yesterday someone told me it was still there and gave me directions. Checking the satellite images I did find the old depot (in the background), but the structure of the gin has completely been removed. As the area looks completely fenced in I consider it useless to go there to see for myself.<br />
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At the cotton gin. Cotton gin and wagons. <br />
Hale County, Alabama, 1936, courtesy <a href="http://loc.gov/">loc.gov</a></td></tr>
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Unfortunately it is much harder to catch the beautiful animals than insects that I encounter, but I do have a nice assortment of newly photographed creatures to offer. Yesterday I also photographed a hummingbird that was at a feeder of a house I visited.<br />
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Finally I was able to catch – not only one of these beetles in a glass – but also on camera. It may be a Hardwood Borer Beetle, but I am not sure. They can be very big (this is not the biggest one I saw) and they can also fly. Mostly they run and I try to teach them, that it is not nice to be indoors. I hope, they tell the story to their friends. This one is walking the streets of Selma.<br />
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I encountered this Eastern-Eyed Click Beetle on my second visit to Perry Lakes Park. It is sitting on a shady bench – after the river left a muddy mess and completely buried the bank's legs with fresh sand.<br />
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Also in Perry Lakes Park, but n many other spots as well the Forest Tent Caterpillar Moth seems to be qutie active. They spin large tents around trees' branches and leaves which look amazing. I read that the y are not killing the entire tree but that they may defoliate and kill some branches.<br />
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And there is another bird I am having fun with at my house. Of course, you can only barely see the bird in the picture that is nesting in the lamp of my side porch. They tried to buld a nest in the lamp of my backporch, but as I always have the door open when home, I suspect I disturbed them by walking around indoors and on the porch.<br />
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So they decided to use the front porch lamp. One of them is always sitting in there, but as soon as I come closer, they fly off. They may be <a href="http://www.outdooralabama.com/pine-siskin/" target="_blank">Pine Siskins</a>, but I am not sure. The other day I felt bad because I needed to leave the light on, otherwise it will be hard to open the door when it's dark.<br />
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ADDENDUM: Today I had my first encounter with a rattlesnake. It was spread out across the path. I was scared and glad to be with someone who knows what to do.<br />
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<br />archivalienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09622310228333791819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24312100.post-9203521165990138192017-07-02T05:29:00.000+02:002017-07-02T05:29:26.461+02:00Rural Studio II<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In downtown Newbern it is impossible to to notice the presence of the Rural Studio. Not only is the old warehouse used as a classroom building, but the Rural Studio also built a townhall, a fire station, and created a public library out of the old bank building – that looked like a bank out of a Bonnie and Clyde movie when I saw it for the first time four years ago.<br />
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The library is a nice building that has some nice corners with cushions for secluded reading. But it also provides a visual connection to the famous green barn in its immediate vicinity. And it kept the old door of the vault.<br />
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The firehouse is home to Newberns voluntary fire department. It is situated across the street from the warehouse and adjacent to the Newbern Townhall.<br />
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A little behind the classroom building one can find a small memorial chapel in the garden: Subrosa Pantheon. It was originally conceived by Samual Mockbee as a memorial to mourning friends. However, he was not able to build it in his lifetime. I was eventually built by his daughter, who had no architecture training or building experience. However, she finished the task and it became a memorial to her deceased father.<br />
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The Rural Studio is an undergraduate program of Auburn University that was founded by Samuel Mockbee (1944–2001) in 1993. Participating architecture students not only design but also build homes that cost no more than 20,000 $ (the 20K Houses) and community buildings like town halls, libraries, sports fields, and the like. The Rural Studio was established in Hale County not only because Samuel Mockbee was familiar with Walker Evans's work there but also because he fell in love with its beautiful landscape. The headquarters are situated in Newbern, a small town 10 miles southeast of Greensboro. Some of the classrooms are located in the well known building photographed by William Christenberry.<br />
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Mockbee thought that architecture should not only serve people of wealth who are able to afford to commission an architect for their projects and urban communities. He was convinced that architecture – and architects – should show social and civic engagement and also serve rural communities.<br />
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Thus the students not only deal with designing, planning, and construction but also reach out into the communities, attend city council meetings, meet with local organizations, talk with potential clients to find out about their needs and meet with the people of the community.<br />
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Another idea is that of sustainability. Some projects implement existing structure, trying to save as much of the existing material as possible. Built in appliances and heating/cooling systems are energy saving and structural measures are used to save as much energy as possible. Private homes are often donated therefore it is important that the residents are able to afford living in them.<br />
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In the beginning the houses constructed often looked very special. They used a lot of donated or recycled materials such as car windshields, auto tires, worn down road signs, or even hay bales. In recent years designs seem to be less extraordinary but still special and they clearly stand out from the usual architecture. However, they will refer to traditional styles of construction in the South and/or use materials that are commonly used in this area.<br />
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I was able to get a guided tour by one of the Rural Studio's staff along some of the structures that have been built in the past almost 25 years. However, the private homes are often located in remote areas and their inhabitants need to guard their private sphere, therefore there are no tours that include them. However, by driving through the area I have discovered more buildings as there are quite a few.<br />
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<br />archivalienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09622310228333791819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24312100.post-42334875279958287582017-06-28T04:18:00.000+02:002017-06-28T04:35:50.002+02:00The Natchez Trace Auto Hike<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Natchez Trace is an old trading route and historic forest trail that connects Natchez, Mississippi and Nashville, Tennessee. It stretches over 440 miles, about 710 kilometers.<br />
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The trail was blazed by Native Americans and later extended to become a full scale travel route for wagons. Today it is a parkway mostly for cars. Cycling is permitted and I did encounter some groups on bicycles. The parkway offers some stops at historical sites or hiking trails as well as some overlooks.<br />
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I took the trace from Natchez to a crossing shortly before the town of Carthage, Mississippi, which covered about 140 miles of the Trace. I passed through Jackson (the state capital) without noticing anything urban, apart from an increased traffic over a few miles. But as the parkway has only controlled access ramps and is not open to commercial traffic there was not much traffic out of Jackson.<br />
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In Germany we have the word "autowandern" which means that you drive through beautiful landscape, where you would usually go on foot as that will give you a more complex experience: the change of temperature when walking out of the sun into the shade and vice versa, the complex smells of vegetation, the sound of birds and insects, and the experience of slowly moving through the landscape which will allow your vision to absorb the surroundings much more thoroughly.<br />
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When on auto hike, you can sit in your air-conditioned car with your favorite radio station tuned in not noticing anything else than the beautiful landscape. I did roll down my windows once in a while – although it was hot – and stepped out of the car a few times to get some idea of the smells and the heat – and the mosquitoes.<br />
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You can even get rid of your trash without leaving the car; I took this photo for all the Germans who have never seen a drive-through garbage can.<br />
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<br />archivalienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09622310228333791819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24312100.post-9913807583614652062017-06-27T05:40:00.000+02:002017-06-27T05:40:31.776+02:00Cotton Kingdom III<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Finally I did get to see real cotton fields on the Frogmore Plantation in Louisiana. Frogmore Plantation has a long history and still grows and gins cotton today. I learned that the US are the third largest cotton producer in the world, only outpaced by China and India.<br />
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As I had not encountered any cotton farms in Alabama and Mississippi it was interesting to learn that Frogmore profited from its location: Until the 1950s the plantation was regularly flooded by the adjacent rivers: The Black River and the Mississippi. The flooding deposited rich silts on the ground, preventing the soil from depletion – something that happened in the Alabama Blackbelt in the 1930s when crops went down due to erosion. After the Corps of Engineers finished working on the Levees the flooding ended. Now fertilizers are in use as well as some crop rotation. Today most cotton in the US is grown in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California.<br />
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Right now the cotton plants were about 8 weeks old, they will soon start to blossom. I found some tiny blossoms close to the ground (an interesting fact: cotton blossoms and ripens close to the ground first and on top only later on). The blossom is first white and then turns pink and red. As cotton is a plant of the hibiscus family the blossoms look kind of familiar.<br />
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The cotton on Frogmore is harvested from September through November. As there is no handpicking anymore, the machine picks all the cotton at once, while back in old tenant farmer days each plant was picked multiple times, whenever some of the cotton bolls were ready. These are some of the bags cotton pickers would have used. They are put over the shoulder, filled with cotton and dragged along.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Walker Evans: Lucille Burroughs picking cotton, <br />
Hale County, Alabama, summer 1936, courtesy <a href="http://loc.gov/">loc.gov</a></td></tr>
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On display is an old cotton gin from the days of the steam-engine. In the gin the fiber is separated from the seeds and other parts of the plant that may have gotten in the bolls. Back in the days only 5% of the seeds were kept for the next year. Now all the seeds are used not only for planting but also for edible oil and other products. After the ginning the fibers are compressed and compacted into bales of 350 to 400 pounds back in the days and 500 pounds today.<br />
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On the plantation there are some of the old slave/tenant cabins on display. They are made from cypress wood that likes water (doesn't mind flooding) and is termite-resistant.<br />
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After the tour of the plantation one is allowed to drive through the modern ginning facility.<br />
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And just to please you with some more sugarcandy: here is the beautiful sunset over Louisiana which lies on the other side of the river.<br />
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I experienced this event in Natchez Under-the-Hill. The city itself is situated on the bluffs thus lying high above the river – with an excellent view. However, in the times of boat and steamboat traffic the town was situated directly on the river, therefore: under the hill.<br />
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After I overdosed with the beautiful antebellum houses I decided to switch to another tour, the St. Catherine Street Trail, that takes the urban wayfarer to the backside of the town in the direction of the slave market. The riches of the people who lived in the nice houses close to the river were produced by the ancestors of the people who lived here before and who live here now. Here we find not only the rich history of slaves and former slaves, but that of free people of color, of mixed marriages that were not allowed but happened anyway, and of houses given to the dark-skinned offspring of white fathers. And of the Civil Rights Movement in Natchez and related events. Apart from that we find gas stations and pawn shops, churches and a women's hall of fame, small cabins and tract houses, and very friendly people who wave at the foreign tourist who is the only one walking in the area.<br />
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<br />archivalienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09622310228333791819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24312100.post-74086209642890660232017-06-26T04:41:00.000+02:002017-06-28T01:04:59.029+02:00Cotton Kingdom I<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On a brief side trip into the time of cotton I am on my way to one of the few operating cotton plantations in the South. Before going there I stopped in Natchez, a town in the State of Mississippi on the Mississippi River, which once was the capital of the Cotton Kingdom. It was here that large numbers of cotton bales were loaded on steamboats to be transported to New Orleans. "<a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/history/united-states-and-canada/us-history/cotton-kingdom" target="_blank">[T]he city's forty most prominent families […] included the largest and wealthiest cotton planters in the entire South and some of the biggest slave owners in the world.</a>"<br />
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Natchez already celebrated its tricentennial in 2016, it is two years older than New Orleans. The name stems from the Native American Natchez people that lived in the area before the French came. Similar to New Orleans Natchez was founded by the French and was later ceded to Spain, who later ceded it to Great Britain before it became an American city.<br />
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As the city became very rich through the cotton trade there are
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So I almost welcomed the familiar sight of inner city areas destroyed by the need to create parking space and by the ignorance of the value of historical structures that has plagued so many US cities since the 1950s and 60s.<br />
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And this is the oldest house that is still standing, it dates to the 18th century. King's Tavern was built before 1789 and served as a tavern, a stage stop, and a mail station at the end of the Natchez Trace.<br />
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In the summer of 1936, when James Agee and Walker Evans were working with the tenant farmers, Agee would sleep in one of the tenant houses. Walker Evans didn't like that, he would rather stay at the hotel in Greensboro.<br />
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I have no idea when it was built but I found an old picture online, showing that the structure had an elaborate balcony structure not only on the side facing main street but also running down the side along Market Street. <br />
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When Walker Evans was staying at the hotel, he took two pictures of Main Street, most likely from the balcony on the second floor. One to the East in the direction of the courthouse:<br />
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Most of the buildings on this picture are still there today.<br />
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It took me a while to find out which buildings I see on this picture: It was the use of a long telephoto lens that is confusing. The balcony on the left side of the picture belongs to the Greensboro Opera House (the brick building on the very right on my picture below). Therefore Evans must have stood way on the left corner of the hotel's balcony to photograph this picture.</div>
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Today the Greensboro Hotel is not a hotel anymore. After closing down as a hotel the building hosted a sewing factory as well as church congregations before it was left to become quite ruinous.</div>
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A while ago the building was purchased by a donor and given to the charity organization of Project Horseshoe Farm which is offering multiple programs to strengthen the community. </div>
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The ground floor is almost finished, therefore the move from another structure on Main Street is about to happen soon. </div>
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Camellia Court is again one of the old antebellum structures in Greensboro, Alabama. I am very happy that this will be my home for three weeks and that I will inhabit the entire house by myself. Camellia Court was built around 1835 and has been renovated to comprise open spaces on both floors. Only the bathrooms have doors.<br />
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Camellia Court is named after what was to become the Alabama state flower in 1959, <i>Camellia japonica,</i> a plant introduced to Alabama from Asia. I think it was part of 19th century exoticism that people would plant this in their yards. As a state flower the camellia dethroned the local goldenrod as – according to the narrative – the state deserved something more refined than this ubiquitous wild flower. Of course there are camellias in the garden, but as they are also called the rose of winter I found only a few withered blossoms.<br />
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The house is hiding behind bushes and big trees from the street, thus it feels really remote, even though it is situated just behind the court house one block off of Main Street. From the front windows I can see my last residence, the <a href="https://archivalien.blogspot.de/2017/05/the-poellnitz-vick-house.html" target="_blank">Poellnitz-Vick House</a>.<br />
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The two story house has an open kitchen and living room downstairs and a bedroom, desk, and sofa plus TV screen upstairs. As always I like to sit in the kitchen, thus slowly I have been moving most of my work downstairs.<br />
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The kitchen has a large door and a small porch facing the garden. Just now the door is open and I hear the rain (tropical storm Cindy is sending epic masses of water from the Caribbean pouring down on Alabama) but also the crickets which tend to be really loud at the time of sunset.<br />
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Pam, the owner, has left a few walls in the old state, which adds a nice vintage feel. And the old wooden floor is just amazing.<br />
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Something that one may find odd at the beginning is taking a shower with a free view on the garden. But as there are thick greens barring the view to the next door neighbors this is a nice way to start the day.<br />
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<br />archivalienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09622310228333791819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24312100.post-88202304862058680492017-06-21T04:39:00.000+02:002017-06-21T22:39:52.464+02:00Whitney Plantation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Whitney Plantation – originally known as Habitation Haydel – is a former plantation on the Mississippi River about a one hour drive west of New Orleans. This part of the Mississippi is called the "German Coast" as many settlers from Germany came here to grow food to begin with and later sugar cane as <i>the</i> major cash crop of Southern Louisiana during the 19th century.<br />
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There are plenty of old plantation homes that are open to the public that tell about plantation life and history during the 18th and 19th centuries. However, many plantation tours only briefly mention slavery and may point to some small cabins adjacent to the splendid big house before indulging once more in the wonderful Southern lifestyle back in the days.<br />
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Whitney Plantation features a different approach: They do a lot of research on the institution of slavery which is not only featured in a small exhibition on site. The guided tour is led from the perspective of slaves. As there are not that many remnants of former slaves left as history is usually told from the perspective of the slave owners and their houses and belongings, artwork is used for remembrance of the sufferings of the slaves.<br />
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There are walls of remembrance with names and as much information as possible of individuals brought to Louisiana from the Senegambia region of Africa. Some spaces also access the narratives of former slaves that were conducted by the Federal Writers' Project. Parallel to the Farm Security Administration, that hired photographers to document the plight of farmers during the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration hired writers and anthropologists to give them jobs. As there were still people alive who were born into slavery the FWP conducted many interviews throughout the South gaining precious first hand accounts of formerly enslaved African Americans. Alan Lomax, who at the time was archiving the American folk song traditions, drafted a questionnaire used in this research.<br />
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Distributed throughout the site are sculptures by Woodrow Nash, mainly life-size sculptures of enslaved children.<br />
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Some of the slave cabins are original to the Haydel Plantation but were moved closer to the house. Most of the cabins were demolished in the 1970s, but now the Whitney Plantation buys such structures from other former plantations in the area.<br />
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The prison was found someplace else, but plantations often would use prisons like this to discipline slaves who had tried to run away or did not behave according to the expectations of the slave holders.<br />
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Not included in the tour – because visitors felt offended – is the memorial to the initiators of the so called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1811_German_Coast_Uprising" target="_blank">1811 German Coast Uprising</a>, the largest slave revolt in US history. Slaves from different plantations marched towards New Orleans to gain freedom. Eventually they were defeated and the organizers beheaded. Their heads were displayed on poles along the river to discourage future upheavals.<br />
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<br />archivalienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09622310228333791819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24312100.post-16601929709243916442017-06-21T03:23:00.001+02:002017-06-21T03:23:55.001+02:00Mobile II<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VQG0kCryrvI/WUnHyySPwUI/AAAAAAAADz8/GRrbShALZ6wZXEzbn_lEDvZ5ursRz9XsQCLcBGAs/s1600/P6090038.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VQG0kCryrvI/WUnHyySPwUI/AAAAAAAADz8/GRrbShALZ6wZXEzbn_lEDvZ5ursRz9XsQCLcBGAs/s400/P6090038.jpg" width="300" /></a> <br />
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Being located at the mouth of the Mobile River Mobile has a large port which can be seen from downtown. It is Alabama's only saltwater port. Comparable to other US cities the access to the waterside is impaired by a huge street that has to be crossed. There is a little park on the water, though, where it is possible to smell the sea as well as the diesel fumes from the big vessels.<br />
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Apart from the very small downtown section that holds some shops and many bars and restaurants I encountered many buildings for sale or boarded up.<br />
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One building that stood out is the Grand Lodge of Alabama. I have
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On a Friday afternoon the city was very quiet, however, it seems that there are not only block parties to be celebrated, but also some problems with cruising and noise.<br />
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I hope this makes you enjoy your furniture more and not sit on it and cry because of high interest rates...<br />
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Mobile, Alabama is even older than New Orleans which will celebrate its tricentennial next year. Mobile was established North of today's location as early as 1702 and was moved to the current site – where the Mobile River flows into Mobile Bay. Mobile was the first capital of the French Louisiana Territory. In 1720 the capital was moved to Biloxi and two years later to New Orleans.<br />
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Mobile and New Orleans share the French origins and the founding father:
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Some impressions of historic homes in the – very small – downtown area.<br />
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Even though some street names sounded familiar, nobody was able to tell me why one street in downtown had the German name Joachim. They just told me about the right way to pronounce it (unfortunately I forgot – but the guy in the tourist office said that they pronounced it differently than anywhere else in the US).</div>
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<br />archivalienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09622310228333791819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24312100.post-62285374106915849642017-06-14T23:53:00.000+02:002017-06-17T20:33:55.246+02:00Agriculture II: Grass-fed Cattle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Alabama Black Belt as well as Hale County seem to be different from other areas in Alabama as driving through one encounters a lot of open land: either catfish ponds or vast stretches of grass where cattle feeds. The other areas of Alabama are mostly covered with forests, namely pine trees, that are one of the major commodities produced in Alabama.<br />
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Cattle is usually outdoors feeding on fresh grass. Some farmers also make hay and additionally feed that during the cold season. However, as Alabama has a very mild climate the cattle stays outside year round. As cattle is raised for meat production calves remain with their mothers.<br />
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Visiting a small farm I was able to get very close to the cattle. We were in the fields with a small dog which attracted a lot of attention from the young ones who seem to be very curious about creatures smaller than themselves.<br />
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When some additional feed was brought out, it seemed as if the poor animals had not fed during the entire day despite standing in the middle of abundant pasture.<br />
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Maybe it is my agricultural ancestry that gets me excited over these beautiful creatures…<br />
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<br />archivalienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09622310228333791819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24312100.post-70925083372484636482017-06-14T21:32:00.000+02:002017-06-15T00:25:02.250+02:00Agriculture I: Catfish<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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When Walker Evans and James Agee worked in Hale County, agriculture was cotton. Tenant farmers also grew corn, as well as fruits and vegetables for their own consumption. Cotton days are long gone now. Cotton was replaced by pine trees, grasslands for grass-fed cattle, and catfish.<br />
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Catfish farming is possible due to the thick layer of clay underneath the black soil that provided the Alabama Black Belt region with its name. The clay layer does not permit water to go through which makes it relatively easy to create large ponds: Dig a hole and wait for rain. There are also many rivers and creeks to maintain water quality.<br />
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Alabama catfish industry started in Greensboro in 1960 with a small hatchery. That is why Greensboro is advertised as the <i>Catfish Capital of Alabama.</i> Today many catfish ponds cover the area. However, Alabama catfish industry keeps facing difficulties due to the competition from Vietnam that ships cheap catfish to the US.<br />
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Catfish is relatively easy in maintenance, they need to be fed only once a day. After about two years the fish can be harvested, a procedure I was able to watch near Greensboro last week. The fishes are taken out of the pond with a huge net and brought into a tank filled with cool fresh water and oxygen. They are then driven to a processing plant in Mississippi where they are electrocuted and further processed for shipping.<br />
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And this is how a small one looked that somehow slipped out of the net.<br />
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There are quite a few animals that I keep seeing in the area, of course many birds but also bugs. As it is difficult to photograph the birds, I cannot show any great photographs of them. I tried to photograph the <i><a href="http://www.outdooralabama.com/black-vulture" target="_blank">Black Vulture</a>, </i>a large black bird that feeds on roadkill, but without a telephoto lens I so far had no chance to catch one. I love the bright red <i><a href="http://www.outdooralabama.com/northern-cardinal/" target="_blank">Northern Cardinal</a> </i>and the <a href="http://www.outdooralabama.com/blue-grosbeak" target="_blank"><i>Blue Grosbeak</i></a> and I keep seeing <i><a href="http://www.outdooralabama.com/great-egret" target="_blank">Great Egrets</a></i> at the catfish ponds, but so far I haven't caught one. I will update this post if I do.<br />
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In the picture above the white birds should be <i>Snowy Egrets</i>. I photographed them in the Louisiana wetlands, but I'm sure I have seen them also in the catfish ponds.<br />
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There are quite a few bugs around, the grasshopper was a big guy, maybe around 5 cm long (2 inches). And I have seen quite a few of them.<br />
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I encountered this cricket in Perry Lakes Park. The bathroom has no roof, therefore it is no surprise that crickets may find it interesing to explore.<br />
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I don't know where the turtle came from, but I found it in the grass beside the sidewalk on Main Street in Greensboro. Later that day the lawn was mowed, I hope the turtle found its pond before that happened.<br />
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I am not sure if my classification of the photographed species is right. Please leave comments if I am wrong.<br />
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ADDENDUM: Looking through my pictures I found one of a great Egret – again, sorry for not having a telephoto lens. I photographed this one from the ferry in Gee's Bend crossing the Alabama River.<br />
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<br />archivalienhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09622310228333791819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24312100.post-50796713759975430022017-06-07T04:36:00.001+02:002017-06-14T20:46:48.941+02:00Gee's Bend<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The small town of Boyton in Wilcox County is situated in a horseshoe shaped bend of the Alabama River that surrounds it on three sides. Therefore it is a rather secluded area. It is probably one of the poorest towns in the poorest county in Alabama.<br />
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Today Gee's Bend is first and foremost known for its Quilters
Collective. The quilters of Gee's Bend make uniquely designed quilts
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Gee's Bend was named after the first plantation owner, the plantation was later taken over by a family named Pettway. After the abolition of slavery the former slaves kept working the land as tenant farmers and took the name of their former owner, thus today you can still find the last name Pettway in the area.<br />
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption">Arthur Rothstein: Sewing a quilt. Gees Bend, Alabama. Jennie Pettway and another girl with the quilter Jorena Pettway,<br />
April 1937, <a href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.31901/">https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.31901/</a></td></tr>
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Known for its isolation the Resettlement Administration started to help the community in 1935. They built houses, a school, and passed out loans to help the farmers.<br />
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Once again, I got to know this location through the photography of the Farm Security Administration (FSA), namely the pictures of Arthur Rothstein and Marion Post Wolcott who worked there in 1937 and 1939. Apart from documenting the people of Gee's Bend, the old cabins, and the newly constructed buildings, Rothstein also made a picture of a quilter. Marion Post Wolcott also documented the ferry which, for a long time, was more or less the only possibility to get to the next town named Camden.<br />
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption">Marion Post Wolcott: Cable ferry from Camden to Gee's Bend, Alabama, May 1939, <a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/fsa2000031896/PP/">https://www.loc.gov/item/fsa2000031896/PP/</a></td></tr>
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In 1962, during the Civil Rights Movement, the ferry service was stopped because people from Gee's Bend were traveling to Camden by ferry in order to register as voters. Without the ferry they had to drive for more than one hour to get to Camden. Eventually there was no ferry service for 44 years. Only as late as 2006 ferry services resumed.<br />
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