The Romance and Mystery of the Past
However, in eastern Wake County, starting in the outskirts of Raleigh and into Wendell, Zebulon, Knightdale and little Lizard Lick, among the sprouting new settlements with modest houses, townhouses, apartment complexes, trailer parks and McMansions, nestled into the country that is still there, are the barns.
I have admired these old buildings shacks, houses, barns, smoke houses and general stores for years. They have a tenacity that matches the people who worked so hard when these buildings were in their prime.
Recently, I began a project with a young girl who is about to turn 11. At first I thought that this would just be for fun. Then I became entranced with the native talent and photographer's eye that this girl has. I have told her that one day she will be identified by name, but for now she is MC to my MA.
We had a great time taking pictures, she taught me something about layering. And of course, one day I will be able to say, "I knew her when".
Dilapidated Tobacco Barn @MA
Tobacco Row and the Research Triangle, North Carolina
40 years ago the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill) was tobacco country. The two cities and one town where NCSU, Duke and UNC plus other universities and colleges were nestled in among hundreds of tobacco farms.Although this industry has been replaced by pharmacueticals and technology, route 40 from NCSU to Duke and UNC and then on to Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, is still called 'Tobacco Row' by college basketball devotees.
It is still country out there, but a lot of the land is now used for housing the workers in the new industries. However, there are still tobacco barns, large and small, scattered throughout the area.
An interesting aside about the "Tobacco Road" moniker is that it is almost impossible to find a place to smoke in public in the triangle area. There are a few restaurants that allow smoking in the bar, an occasional gas station with signs that say 'smoker friendly', but small groups of employees hovering together outside the office for a cigarette that isn't allowed inside is very common.
Dilapidated Tobacco Barn: A Dying Industry @MA
Inside Tobacco Barn @MC
Barn Raising: An American Communal Tradition
This might be called socialism by some in America's current political climate, but in the 19th century barn raising was a common and communal practice. Everyone needed barns. They were too big of a project to do alone, thus the community would come together to build a barn for a neighbor who supplied the material. The men built, the women cooked, the littlest ones played.
Churches were also built in this manner, but unlike the barns that were put up quickly using wood and other materials that were vulnerable to nature, the churches were often built with stone and took much longer.
I don't know that any of these buildings were built as a result of a barn raising, but the decay you see here shows that they were made to be utilitarian for the time being. They aren't functional today, but they have survived in their own way and they do serve the purpose of history and art.
The Amish Never Stopped Doing Barn Raisings
Broadwell's Close up
The Broadwell Compound
MC insisted that we introduce ourselves to the people in the house in order to be able to get closer pictures. We learned that the family still owns land, but doesn't live there any more.
Young Photographer Scouts Subject @MA
Shack with lean to @MC
Smoke House and Shack @MC
Young Photographer Casts a Long Shadow @ MC
Broadwell's Store, Ex- Hub of Activity @MC
Built in 1922, Still Going @MA
Today's Working Barns @MA
I had admired this farm for months. It demonstrates the care and pride that the abandoned barns had once had. The American flag roof is just just the topping on the cake!
Patriotic Barn @MA
Lizard Lick, Eastern Wake County, N. C.
Lizard Lick, North Carolina is a small, unincorporated community located just off of US 64 in Wake County.The community is approximately 20 miles east of the state capital of Raleigh. It is about 3 miles north of Wendell and 3 miles west of Zebulon. In reality, it is the crossroads of Lizard Lick Road and Highway 97.
In May 1997, the state installed the first traffic light in Lizard Lick. The town apparently got its name from a "passing observer who saw many lizards sunning and licking themselves on a rail fence."[1]
Lizard Lick has an unofficial population of 1,300.
Wikipedia
In The Woods in Lizard Lick, North Carolina @MA
The Disappearing Barns in Iowa
- Barns Disappearing from Iowa
- This is a sad article that I got from Rufus. I love the barns of North Carolina. And even though I haven't been in Iowa for 40 years, but I am always an Iowan at heart. I mourn that they don't have theirs any more.
Mysteries in the Sun @MC
From the Car @MC
Equipment Left Behind @MC
Collapsing House @MC
The Old Red Barn @MC
The Farmer's House @MC
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- Margo_Arrowsmith Margo_Arrowsmith Jan 6, 2009 @ 7:49 pm | in reply to rms
- Thanks, and the little girl who took some of these pictures loves this! She shows it to all her relatives and so thanks from both of us!
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- rms rms Jan 6, 2009 @ 7:32 pm
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- Dec 11, 2008 @ 3:23 pm
- I love pictures of old barns and outhouses. They remind me of my childhood.
Great lens
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- Jewelsofawe Jewelsofawe Dec 11, 2008 @ 12:45 pm
- Great barn pictures! Great lens!
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- Margo_Arrowsmith Margo_Arrowsmith Dec 9, 2008 @ 12:56 pm | in reply to seedplanter
- I had forgotten. There was a woman in my town who used old barn wood to paint on. In high school, I bought one of the Virgin Mary and special ordered an Arrowsmith 'coat of arms' for my parents. We still have both of them. Thanks for reminding me.
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Lensmaster Margo_Arrowsmith has been a member since June 21 2008, has rated 2,023 lenses, favorited 120, and has created 129 lenses from scratch. Margo Arrowsmith donates their royalties to Squidoo Charity Fund. This member's top-ranked page is "Heifer International: The Pay It Foward Entrepreneurial Charity". See all my lenses
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For Arrowsmith Printing 9/22/08
I was born into a small business, I believe that small business and entrepreneurs are the backbone of America and what has made us great. They are what made us great and will save us in these unsure times. I have never wanted to have a great job. Well, better a great one, than a boring dead end one, and I have had both. But I have never really wanted a job at all.
Don't get me wrong, I am a hard worker. I have worked a full-time job, a part time job and a private practice all at the same time for a lot of years in my past. It isn't the work, its the working for someone else. Never wanted to do that, and I don't understand those who want to do that.
When I was six months old my parents bought their first small town weekly newspaper in Iowa. This was back in the day, back when small town newspapers were not just advertising sheets. Perhaps there are still some of them that are real, I hope so.
So I came by this perverse nature naturally. My path to self employment has been different than theirs, but it has always been my path, my direction.
Growing up in Iowa, in the fifties, I also grew up politically conservative. By the time I was 30 I was radically left. Today? I am proudly liberal and what that means will be clearer as we progress.
However, I have had conflicts about 'taking advantage of people'. I now know that employing people is not automatically taking advantage of them, but it took a while for me to learn that nothing is intrinsically good or bad. Well, almost nothing.
I have educated myself in business, I have a small business and I have used EFT and other energy clearing methods to help me clarify the old conflicts and move forward.
My mission here is to provide a forum for people who want to work independently through one person businesses or through employing others and for whom the betterment of human kind is an important value. My lenses are about offering good products, teaching people about betting their lives, and using the money they make for their pleasure and the benefit of others.
That is how I see business and if you have a similar vision I invite you to my blog www.creatingbusinessenergy.com
Margo Arrowsmith
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