The south, the music, the people

 While Sepians are remembering listening to portable radios...I'll share some other old photos that are hanging out in my SS folder!

Roberta Flack was born here in Black Mountain..."The first time ever I saw his Face" and "Singing me Softly with His Song"... much later than the early radio seen above.

The houses in the southern USA used to all have a front porch. Before air conditioning that is. Photograph by Samuel Lee.

With all the cold and snow the US has been having (and Canada, and  Scotland, and and) this shot of Fifth Avenue is appropriate, by Alfred Steiglitz, 1905

And going back south in the US, these pine forests provided turpentine, 1903

They probably never had snow to worry about!

Daughter of white tobacco sharecropper at country store in Person County, North Carolina, circa 1939.

Ray Hicks and family in Beech Mountain, NC. Ray Hicks was a storyteller known for his “Jack Tales”.

Come over and share your sepia photos at Sepia Saturday, it's easy!

Today's quote:

apricity: the warmth of the sun on a winter’s day