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Monday 9 August 2010

Community


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People at the Fair, Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940

The ride wasn't so bad

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Friends meeting at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair, October 1940

How long has it been?

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Initial pin souvenirs at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair, October 1940

I'll trade mine for yours

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Getting ready to serve the barbeque dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair, October 1940

A provisional blessing

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Men of the community of Pie Town, New Mexico, eating at the barbeque, October 1940

For every grassblade a prospect



Photos by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

5 comments:

TC said...

This post might be considered a companion to At the Fair (I): Pie Town.

Elmo St. Rose said...

Where exactly in New Mexico
was Pie Town?

TC said...

Pie Town was, and is, situated atop the Great Divide, about seventy miles west of Socorro, on "Pie-way 60".

From the links at that local site you can learn a bit about the history, the accounting methods, and the pies...

Elmo St. Rose said...

the moon in new mexico
can be too bright for
eyes

the sky so vast and blue
or of a colored hue, too
clear for lies

stars will be bright
in the cold night,
fortify,friends,
eat some pie

TC said...

Thanks Charlie, lovely poem.

Put me in mind a bit of Ed's Vaquero:

In the background night is a house,
has a blue chimney top,
Yi Yi, the cowboy's eyes
are blue. The top of the sky
is too.