Fond memories abound from 112 James Street. It was the place I grew up. The address I memorized should I ever get lost. Well, some twenty years later, I had the opportunity to buy this house. I bought it from the family my parents sold it too. Here are a few polaroids taken in the backyard... I used the Polaroid SX70 and time zero film. Oh the memories I have from that backyard, not to mention my hamster "pursey" (named for my love of purses) is buried back there.
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My first Polaroid was a Swinger. It was white.
Are you a transplanted Southerner too? My wife and I narrowed our move from the South down to two options--NYC and Eugene, Oregon. That was in 1986, and here we still are. My family is mostly dead, so I don't get back much.
I am a Southerner indeed. Miss it and my family. Love the NW... such beautiful country. My husband is from Seattle.
Family? Mine is either dead or (in the case of my younger sister) not speaking to me, so that makes it easier to stay away. Do you get back often? NY to New Orleans is easily a non-stop connection, I should think.
By the way, I'm guessing that you're from McComb. Are you old enough to remember the Heffner family, the ones who were run out during the Civil Rights era?
hah, yes, i grew up in mccomb and my family is still there. i get back 3-4 times a yr. growing up i hated it and wanted to move as far away as possible...but the older i get the more special of a place it becomes to me. it is one of the few places i really enjoy photographing. don't remember the heffner family. my family didn't move there until the mid 70s.
Ah, too bad. You missed the Civil Rights days.
Did you move there from someplace else in Mississippi?
I went back to a funeral in Utica last summer (please note my July 14th blog entry). Other than that sort of thing, I rarely return. My wife and I moved to Oregon to escape Mississippi--the heat, poverty, ignorance, racial tension--but I miss it even if I don't go back much. Since my wife has family there, I told her that I would be willing to move back if she wanted to, but she said something to the effect that she'd rather be dead. But then she was raised an Air Force brat. She was born in Vicksburg, and has family in Utica and the Hammond area, but never put down roots there. We came to Oregon in 1986, but I still feel like an expatriate.
Mississippi is that kind of place that you love to hate...when you live there, that is. hah...your wife's comment i'd rather be dead" was too funny. And the heat and humidity is really something to be reckoned with... my family has a business in miss... that's what keeps them there...my dad's from texas and my mom has family scattered around franklin co. . They moved to Mccomb when I was a yr. old. So that has always been home to me.
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