This past weekend,
Rosie was in Danville, Va.
Whilst Maxine was driving me down into
"Millionaire's Row,"
we passed the
Sutherlin Mansion,
the last Capitol of the Confederacy.
Check out my former posts above.
Anyways,
I asked Maxine to stop.
She did.
And I got these pictures.
Hysterical Society Marker.
And would you lookey, lookey?
There's a Confederate reenactment going on.
Of course,
Rosie can't pass this up.
Front of the Sutherlin Mansion.
Little history about the Sutherlin Mansion.
Before it became the Mansion,
it was the Danville Public Library.
It was my Internet in the 50's - 60's.
Then it became the Danville Museum.
I happened to own a photography shop
in the 70's-80's
and ended up shooting pictures for the Museum
at all their GALAS.
In the mid-late 70's,
whenever Elizabeth Taylor and John Warner
were doing whatever they were doing,
I was asked to photograph their ensuing event
for the Museum.
I got La Liz's Grande Entrance.
I shot picture after picture of Mizz Taylor.
The next day after the festivities,
I arrived at the Museum Offices
with my contact sheets
after I'd gone back to my shop
the previous night
to develop the film,
and print bunches of pictures of
La Liz.
As I proudly splayed the 5 x 7's out
in front of the Museum Director,
I watched his ...
scowl.
He turned to me and said,
"You don't have enough pictures of us."
Lesson learned:
Always take pictures of the Nobodies.
Here's the rose garden.
I'll have to come back when they're in bloom.
Well, not really.
Mine will be blooming soon
and I got a shitload more roses than what's here.
The two grunts on the right
were following orders from the
passive-aggressive feller on the left.
I just noticed
the actual day
I saw this re-enactment
and uploaded these pictures
was March 27.
SEVEN days ago.
I suck at blogging.
Cute little puppy dog.
Mr. Hawthorne says he doesn't think
these Pseudo-Adirondack chairs
were period pieces.
I'm thinkin' the Confederacy was avant guard.
Heh. Grunt corrects the boss.
Beautiful saucer magnolia.
The Bradford pears were in bloom
all along our route.
Bradford pears at Averett University.
Hyacinths in Maxine's front yard.
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