Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Book Covers
I think I want to use to same pictures for front and back on all of them except I would put "bykendaforbes" on the back of each one for the author. Sorry I got these up late...I lost some of my pictures on my computer :(
Monday, June 28, 2010
Trip To Ponce De Leon, FL
On my way back from Ponce De Leon, I stopped in Defuniak Springs to grab some geocaches and take a couple more pictures. I wanted to get a picture of this last time but it was a Saturday when I went so there were more people out. This time I went on a Sunday and as I suspected the place was a ghost town! This tribute to southern values is common all over in the Panhandle. Nobody works on Sunday and nothing is open. Good thing McDonalds is just up the road:)
Trip To Ponce De Leon, FL
On my way back from Ponce De Leon, I drove through Defuniak Springs again to grab a couple geocaches :) My first trip I wanted to take a picture of this place but there were too many cars in the parking lot. This is called the Sanderson Sisters Antique Store and Cafe. Huh, imagine that, I never would have put those two together... But, it must be working because the last time I was there the cafe was packed! They must all be getting good food and counting all the stuff nailed to the outside.
Trip To Ponce De Leon, FL
This cement stone is engraved with a poem about the huge oak tree that hovers over it. Next door is Ponce de Leon's War Memorial. Even though this town is run down, the memorial is well kept and a tribute to what the people here value.
Trip To Ponce De Leon, FL
I thought this building to be interesting and beautiful in color so I wanted to photograph. Unfortunately, most of the town is run down like this building. I wasn't brave enough to enter because it looked like a snake pit and I already was covered in poison oak from the previous days excursions. The town looks as though it was left after a natural disaster and nobody ever came back to repopulate. It could be contributed to the railroad as many towns near railroads were poor and not kept up very well.
Trip To Ponce De Leon, FL
Ok...maybe these last three will seem really touristy and trivial but let me just tell you that I don't think it is very common to find an old car, a sculpture of antiquity and a giraffe all on one property. Please someone help these people out with their yard decor!
Monday, June 21, 2010
Trip to Boston, MA
Ok...this week I took a little vacation and visited a very important place where lots of American history has taken place. Unfortunately I only had a small period of time to visit so I took in as much history as I could. I will go back to taking pics of the panhandle next week but for now I hope you enjoy the pics and the history.
The Minuteman National Historic Park
Photograph of The Minute Man, a statue by Daniel Chester French erected in 1875 in Concord, Massachusetts. Although French had made sketches of some descendants of Isaac Davis, the first colonial killed during the fight at the North Bridge, April 19, 1775 (who was also the commander of the Acton Minute Men, one of the companies that fought there), French later wrote that he meant to depict in his statue the typical minute man of 1775.
Minuteman National Historic Park
The phrase is in the opening stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn" (1837), and describes the impact of the battle at Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775. Emerson wrote the "Concord Hymn" for the dedication of a battle monument very close to his family's home, and the words are meant to emphasize that a critical event happened at this location that triggered something of global importance. This is the inscription on the monument.
Minuteman National Historical Park
This national park in Boston is the site of so much history. The first shots of the American Revolution were fired here at the North Bridge. This small house sits behind North Bridge and well preserved considering its front yard was the site of a battlefield filled with British and American soldiers. It looks so serene today but was the site of much bloodshed.
The Old North Church Boston, MA
The enduring fame of the Old North began on the evening of April 18, 1775, when the church sexton, Robert Newman, climbed the steeple and held high two lanterns as a signal from Paul Revere that the British were marching to Lexington and Concord by sea and not by land. This fateful event ignited the American Revolution. "One if by land, Two if by Sea"
The Salem Witch Trials
Some of the most important people in the Salem witch trials that were hung first were placed in a courtyard next to the graveyard where all the others are buried. Along the threshold going into the courtyard there is an inscription that is the statement all who were accused had to say before they could be released. "Lord Hear me.....I am wholly innocent of such wickedness....If I confess I should save my life...I am innocent..I do plead not guilty...I AM NOT A WITCH." Sadly many of them would not confess and were hanged anyway.
The Salem Witch Trials
Nothing can be creepier than graveyards but usually not so much in the middle of the day. However this graveyard in particular was the famous Salem graveyard where all accused of witchcraft were hanged and buried in the 1600's. Sarah Good was one of the first women to be accused of being a witch and was hanged on July 19, 1692 along with her husband John Proctor.
Monday, June 14, 2010
In last week's critique many of you said that some of the pictures I took were touristy.
I have decided that maybe the pictures aren't coming across the way I would like them to
so instead of taking candids of these places, I am instead going to take pictures of places on the
National Historic Register. These will be simple pictures to document the places and in my book I
will tell the whole background story of each place.
Defuniak Springs National Historic Register
First Confederate monument honoring Walton Co.'s Confederate dead
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