Tag: paige green
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five hours at a high school football game….and not much to show for it…..other than this shot of the Byrnes’ visitor seating an hour before the game. I am going to another one tonight to try and do better. BMW Z3 and Z4 Homecoming weekend. 500-600 cars return to their birth place with their owners.…
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Now that the majority of the textile mills have closed down, the mill houses, that once housed the workers, are being dressed up with paint and converted into trendy living spaces for young students and couples, like newly-weds Rube and Ellen. Ellen has just started her master’s at the University of Georgia and she is…
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“Family is everything.” This is Sandra Gowan’s family. Sandra is the town clerk. Her husband is the town magistrate. Her mom worked a textile mill, the old industry, and her son works at the BMW plant, the new industry.
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Tim Brady is the Assistant Chief of the Reidville Fire Department. His wife Dolly makes missiles for the military. The lab Buddy retrieves doves when Tim takes him hunting and the chihuahua Hunter barks, at everything.
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“Football is like religion here.” And it is combined with religion here. Sam tells me that every Sunday the team goes to church together and every Wednesday the Coach has a prayer breakfast. Football is so big that the revival at a local church was reduced from 5 days to 3 days because no one…
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“91 years old and nothing aches.” A farmer all his life with nothing left to farm except the weeds. He still has 15o acres left over from the land grant that was given to his great grandfather by the King of England, and to the developers’ dismay, he is saving it for his kids. The…
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Today we are farming houses in America and we are farming grass to put in the yards of our houses….. and to put on our golf courses that surround our really fancy houses.
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This weekend I went to Atlanta to visit an old friend. While I was there I discovered, by chance, that there was an Annie Leibovitz exhibit at the High Museum of Art. For a brief moment, I thought maybe I didn’t need to go, because I saw her talk last fall in Berkeley, California, and…
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Everyone in Reidville, South Carolina, will tell you the hub of the town is the fire department. So I spent a day there to see for myself.
somewhere between a handshake and two kisses 