We Are All Local - Little Worlds
On Little Pine Road, Madison County, NC 2017
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We Are All Local - Eastern North Carolina
Eastern North Carolina, 2015
- outtake, Farm Aid
We Are All Local - Little Worlds
Kate at seventeen, 4th of July, Anderson Branch, Madison County, NC 2008
When Kate was fourteen she was called to order in Phys. Ed. Class for throwing a tampon applicator at Christian Maloney. We don't know why she threw it. Her teacher, Betty Shook, told Kate she was going to call her mother about it. At which point, Kate responded, "That's okay, she'll probably laugh." She was right.
We Are All Local - Mallory, Weeks Before Waylon
Mallory, Weeks Before Waylon, PawPaw, Madison County, NC 2017
- from Staring
"There is nothing as beautiful as the body of a pregnant woman," he said,
as they went to the garden to make the photograph.
"Well," she said. "Do you want me to whip it out?"
We Are All Local - Family
My sister, Jean Sproull and her husband, Chuck, and their first-born, Rebecca, Silver Spring, MD 1977.
My niece, Rebecca Romine and her husband, Paul, and their two children, Anna and Jackson, PawPaw, Madison County, NC 2017.
We had a pleasant visit with our niece and her family a couple of weeks ago. Rebecca lives in Indiana, a state we don't visit much, so it was nice to have them stop here on their way to Gatlinburg and Myrtle Beach. Rebecca was the first of my now-deceased sister's children and she just turned 40 years old.
We Are All Local - Kelsey Before Acer
Kelsey Before Acer, PawPaw, Madison County, NC 2017
- from Staring
We Are All Local - Last Day at the Brick Factory
Last Day at the Brick Factory, Marshall, NC 2017
Josh and Emily, Last Day at the Brick Factory, Marshall, NC 2017
Last Day at the Brick Factory - best day ever - Marshall, NC 2017
Sicily, 2005
Valle dei Templi, Agrigento, Sicily 2005
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Lonesome Mountain Road, Madison County, NC 2017
We Are All Local - Family
My First Cousin, Dolores Oliveri, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 2011.
- from the series "Staring"
We Are All Local - Sparta
Megan Boling with her daughters, Emolyn (l) and Gillian,
@ 3 cent farm with Fall Line Press, Sparta, GA 2017
Sometimes photographs just come to you.
You see them from across the field,
and you think,
"this is truly a lovely photograph walking towards me."
And they arrive to where you're standing,
and stop.
And they're just as lovely up close,
more so.
You ask.
And they present themselves,
so direct, so easy.
And you think, "Ah,
the grace of youth."
We Are All Local - We Are All Brickmakers
Marshall, Madison County, North Carolina 2017
- click any photograph to enlarge
If you haven't had the opportunity to stop at the old jail in Marshall and participate in the brick project, you should do so. This amazing community art project is all about memory, both community memory, as well as, personal memory. Have your thoughts, your ideas, your likes and desires memorialized on the walls of the renovated jailhouse. This is a great idea from Madison residents Josh Copus and Emily Patrick and I urge everyone to come out, make a brick, say what's on your mind.
Go to https://communitybrick.org/ for scheduling.
We Are All Local - Kate at the Start of her Trip
Kate, PawPaw, Madison County, NC, September 10, 2017.
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Mallory McCoy and Joe Evans at the party for their Baby Waylon, due soon, Thomas Branch, Madison County, NC 2017.
What could be better than seeing young people commit to our community and to each other. In these trying times it gives one hope that all will be okay in the world.
Personalized onesies for Baby Waylon, Thomas Branch, Madison County, NC 2017.
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Shelton Laurel, Madison County, NC 2010
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Tommy Koloski and his son, Salix, light a candle for victims of racism at the anti-racism rally in downtown Marshall, North Carolina 2017.
I listened to the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young song Teach Your Children today as I looked at this photograph from the anti-racism rally in Marshall on August 17. I was heartened. As I've aged I've often wondered if those of us of my generation have, in fact, taught our children well. Have we taught them to be engaged in their communities; taught them to value all people; taught them to honor the environment; taught them the stupidity of hate and the beauty of diversity? I wonder if we have taught them to teach their children? Clearly, some people have taught well, and others are teaching well.
Little Worlds: A Work in Progress
Junior walking Pet to Water, Sodom, Madison County, NC 1979
LITTLE WORLDS: A WORK IN PROGRESS EXHIBITION OPENING
- Friday, September 8, 2017
- 6:30pm 8:30pm
- Fall Line Press675 Drewry Street, Suite 6Atlanta, GA 30306USA (map)
Explore Madison County, North Carolina through the eyes of Guggenhiem, NEH and NEA fellow Rob Amberg. Since moving there in 1973, writing and photographing the evolving culture and environment of this unique piece of Appalachia has been his lifetime project.
His first book, Sodom Laurel Album, is a cult classic now in its second printing and was published in 2002 by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke and the University of North Carolina Press. His second book from Madison County, The New Road: I-26 and the Footprints of Progress in Appalachia, was published in 2009 by the Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago. To complete the trilogy, a third book is in progress. Fall Line has been in conversation with Amberg about this third book currently titled Little Worlds.
The exhibition will feature framed prints as well as unframed working prints presented in a wall collage. Many of these images will appear in the third book, and it gives the viewer a chance to see the edit in process. The exhibition is intended to show some of the processes and decisions that go into the editing process of making a book.
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We Are All Local - Faye and Kate
Faye and Kate, Valdese, NC 1992
Whatever misapprehension or concern Leslie's parents may have had about me - my Yankee ways or "he ain't from around here" attitudes - clearly vanished when we brought Kate into their lives. A grandchild was the one thing they wanted that they didn't have and Kate fulfilled their dreams and desires, and then some. Kate was nine years old when Jim passed away so his experience of her, and she of him, was limited. But Faye has gotten the full dose. And now, twenty-five years later, roles are reversed and Kate is more likely to be holding her grandmother although not wearing curlers.
We Are All Local - Momma's got . . .
Leslie and Faye, PawPaw, Madison County, NC 2017
Yesterday evening, as Leslie was washing her mom's hair in the kitchen sink, she suggested to Faye that she might just as well shave her chin hairs, too, which were becoming unruly and unsightly. Faye frowned, not wanting to admit what was evident from a quick look in the mirror.
I, in an effort to add some light humor to the scene, issued a worn-out call:
Shave and a Haircut, two bits.
To which Leslie seamlessly and promptly offered a response:
Momma's got a cow with two tits.