Monday 9 August 2010

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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)
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5 comments:

  1. TC9 August 2010 at 05:01

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

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  2. Elmo St. Rose15 August 2010 at 11:35

    Where exactly in New Mexico
    was Pie Town?

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  3. TC15 August 2010 at 12:13

    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...

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  4. Elmo St. Rose18 August 2010 at 18:17

    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

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  5. TC18 August 2010 at 19:45

    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.

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