tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post7961383750362603373..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Dorothea Lange: Granville County, North CarolinaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-68960646650746526102016-01-03T15:07:35.937-08:002016-01-03T15:07:35.937-08:00That little store was actually in Shoofly, if we a...That little store was actually in Shoofly, if we are talking about the same one. It was torn down sometime in the nineties.<br /><br />We live just a little ways from the intersection described as a crossroads hamlet, the one that has the road sign pointing different ways to Culbreth, Shoofly, etc. The large white house in the background burned two years ago after an ice storm; it had been serving as storage for the Jones family, and they maintained the exterior just as though someone stil lived there. Electrical problems were the cause of that fire. The chimneys still stand. The store in the foreground was taken down quite some time ago. I am not certain of the year. We've lived in this area for almost five years but drove through it over about the last 25 years! Love your blog. I have come to appreciate beautiful, rural Granville County even more.Mary Ann Potterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10859843676283396203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-90620090900125776362014-03-23T14:07:51.786-07:002014-03-23T14:07:51.786-07:00Here is the exact intersection today. The store wo...Here is the exact intersection today. The store would have been to the left of the stop sign. https://www.google.com/maps/@36.142622,-78.59173,3a,75y,311.55h,83.34t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sNnSZWK2-7f2YoiTISvzS1w!2e0M.J.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10132887634977388378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-4390204449023992582014-03-23T13:39:32.630-07:002014-03-23T13:39:32.630-07:00Allen Dew of the Granville County Gen. Soc. says
...Allen Dew of the Granville County Gen. Soc. says<br /> <br />"The store was located at the intersection of Hwy 56 and Hester Road. The store operated until the late 1950s until Mr Currin died in 1958 and the store ceased operation. At that time, the Hester Road was a dirt road. Hester Road was paved sometime about 1985, and at that time the old country store was torn down." <br /><br /><br /><br />M.J.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10132887634977388378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-78344201033342716652014-03-22T19:46:08.712-07:002014-03-22T19:46:08.712-07:00I asked if anyone at the Granville County Historic...I asked if anyone at the Granville County Historical Society knew the location of the store in these pictures. I was told that it was the located at Wilton and owned by Lindsey Aaron Currin thus the "L.A. Currins Store"M.J.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10132887634977388378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-43682431464872239502011-10-18T06:06:15.572-07:002011-10-18T06:06:15.572-07:00How things change. I remember driving through the ...How things change. I remember driving through the Santa Clara Valley in 1951. Abundant farms, a feeling of Spain. Now it's silicon and concrete.<br /><br />But whether poultry farm or chip farm, it's hard to imagine anyone getting up the gumption, or for the matter the interest, much less the permission, to do a close-up photo tour of -- as that Trollope has it -- The Way We Live Now.<br /><br />Lange and the other FSA photographers were tolerated, if not always welcomed, in the South. There was a certain modicum of trust/hope invested in the government in 1937. And too, any such trust would look to have been fairly well founded. There was the undeniable fact the government was willing to bother to try to look into, and even help out with, the material conditions of poverty.<br /><br />Lange and the other FSA photographers, by the way, received a stipend of exactly $5 a day for their work. <br /><br />She did a very interesting interview for the Smithsonian Oral History Project, shortly before her death. Doesn't pull any punches.<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/weve-been-blown-out-dorothea-lange.html" rel="nofollow">Dorothea Lange: "We've Been Blown Out"</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-54430470347775833092011-10-18T04:32:45.362-07:002011-10-18T04:32:45.362-07:00Wow, I love these. I remember driving through the...Wow, I love these. I remember driving through the tobacco countryside in the 60s. It was a huge part of the drive to the South Carolina relatives and beaches when I was a girl. Now, oddly, I think Reynolds is one of the philanthropists of NC with a D leaning, hated by Art Pope. I think . . . And I have read that a lot of the fields are poultry farms. <br />I wonder what a photo tour would look like now.Nin Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.com