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Stumpage Reports
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Sunday, August 08, 2004 :::
NC-158 East
Neil Young's Old Ways and Johnny Cash's God set the tone as I motored through the Christ haunted landscape of north central North Carolina. I drove past lots of churches with words like "Church of God," "House of Prayer," and "Primitive" in their names. Including the "Primitive Baptist Library." I also passed fine business establishments like "Wood Werx," "Blue Memories Bar & Grill," and "Nappy's Cue Lounge."
But I had come looking for none of these places. I took I-40 and I-85 to near Reidsville and then headed back on NC-158 across Rockingham, Caswell, Person, and Granville Counties in search of Confederate Monuments.
I had a suprisingly easy time finding all four monuments and the town's respective libraries, where I trolled through old newspapers on microfilm and rooted through their vertical files. I brought home quite a bit of information I did not have before. It's amazing some of the stuff squirreled away in the local history rooms of some of the little libraries. One of these places had the minute books of the local UDC going back to 1903 stuffed in a file cabinet drawer. I was probably the first person to look at them since they'd been put there.
I took some digital pictures with my almost-free antique digital camera and took some, how you say it, analog pictures with my old trusty camera. I'm glad I took the pictures with the old-fashioned camera because I'm having problems getting the digital pics to load on my PC. I was hoping to have a few pics to post, but alas. Later this week I should be able to post some scans of the black and white pictures I took. Of course, black and white is the only way Confederate Monuments should be photographed.
::: posted by tom at 1:04 PM
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