Chair in B&W

(Photograph copyright 2013 by Dan Routh)

Chair still life. Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Fishing Plug

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Still life of old fishing plug.

White Chicken

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Neighbor's chicken. Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Harley

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1937 Harley Davidson motorcycle.

Skull in B&W

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Still life in B&W.

Tractor Under the Shed

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An old Super A Farmall tractor with cultivators sits in a shed behind the old Baynes Store in Person County, North Carolina.

Threshing Wheat

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Threshing wheat. Denton, North Carolina.

Cape Neddick

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Cape Neddick ("Nubble") Lighthouse, York, Maine.

Sheep in B&W

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Cheviot sheep near my home in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Bynum General Store and Post Office

The Bynum General Store (also known as the Harris and Farrell General Store) in Bynum, North Carolina, an old mill town on the Haw River between Pittsboro and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The Bynum mill closed in 1983 (and burned in 2001) and the store which also served as the local post office closed in 2006. Since then it has been used a community center and music venue.

(Photographs copyright 2013 by Dan Routh)

Building Fence

Neighbor Russell Mize takes a break between setting posts with Justin Latham on our farm in Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

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Key

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Old key, still life.

74 Years Later

In 1939 while working for the Farm Security Administration documenting farmers during the Depression, photographer Dorothea Lange produced several images in North Carolina. One of my favorites (directly below) was entitled Crossroads Store, Person County, North Carolina. Shot on the porch of Baynes Store in Gordonton, it is an image of black sharecroppers and the store owner taking a break on a Sunday afternoon. Simply put, it's an extraordinary photograph.

I was up in Person County and stopped by the crossroads. The old store still stands there some 74 years later, and is now used as a barn. Part of it on the left has been torn down and the signs, the steps and the pumps are long gone, but the same cedar posts still hold up the porch roof.

(Top and bottom photographs copyright 2013 by Dan Routh. Center image by Dorothea Lange/United States Library of Congress)

Gary Mac

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Portrait, Gary MacMasters. Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Garlic on the Table

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Still life.

Maine Lighthouse

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Pemaquid Point Light, in Bristol, Maine. From scanned film.

Shovel on the Wall

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Still life near Seagrove, North Carolina.

Hog

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Closeup of free range hog. Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

Wooden Boat

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Wooden boat. Beaufort, North Carolina.

Julian Portrait

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Jimmy Horney at Julian Milling Company in Julian, North Carolina.

French Horn

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Detail of a french horn made by Greensboro craftsman Jacob Medlin. For info on the magnificent instruments he hand crafts, go to his website http://medlinhorns.com.

New Year

Wayne Hussey starts off 2013 by plowing with his team of four mules near Seagrove, North Carolina. He plows in the early winter so his red land will freeze and loosen before he plants in the Spring.

(Photographs copyright 2013 by Dan Routh)

The Curtain

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Near Red Cross, in Randolph County, North Carolina.

Grinding Corn

Michael Williams grinds corn for dairy feed. Grays Chapel, North Carolina.

(Photographs copyright 2013 by Dan Routh)