– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Navajo Brave Statue I have a collection of images of statues and sculptures such as this one of a Navajo Brave outside a gallery in Old Town Scottsdale, Arizona. The fun with these is to try and produce something different than a simple copy of the original piece of art. Although the expression on the face of...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Thurmond, West Virginia As we saw in last week’s post, Thurmond, West Virginia was built around the railroad and its service to the coal industry in the Appalachian Mountains of Southern West Virginia. Today we will look at how the rest of the town expanded and, just as rapidly, declined with the combined...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Maybe Spring Is Here At Last I was going to be optimistic and just call this post Spring Is Here At Last but having been caught out a couple of times so far this year I decided to add the “Maybe”. Here in the Mid-Atlantic we have had at least two false dawns as far as spring goes where temperatures...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Thurmond, West Virginia In the next two weeks we will visit Thurmond, West Virginia. This is a town that is intrinsically tied to coal and timber and the C&O railroad that was used to transport these commodities out of the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia. In its heyday in the 1920s, Thurmond had...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – Searight’s Tollhouse The Searight’s Tollhouse is one of the two remaining tollhouses on the National Road in Pennsylvania. The National Road played one of the most important roles in the opening of the old Western Territory. It was authorized by the federal government in 1806 in response to the need to...
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– Click on the image to enlarge or purchase – James Andersons Blacksmith Shop Having visited such craftman as the shoemaker and the harpsichord maker, today we take a look at the craftsman who was partially responsible for the security of the colony. James Andersons Blacksmith Shop is located behind James Anderson’s house on the south side of Duke of...
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