Thoughts and Works in Progress

Sunflower County Seed Barn/Shed

This barn is the location where Emmett Till was beaten and, most likely, murdered. This site has often been written out of the Emmett Till narrative due to William Bradford Huie's article in LOOK Magazine.

Mabry Mill, Blueridge Parkway

Binhammer Photographs, Photoblog, Roadside America Photo Series

What is: Mabry Mill along the Blue Ridge Parkway. One of the most photographed and painted places along the Parkway. What was:Ed Mabry (1867-1936) built the mill which was really 3 mills in one place. He and his wife Lizzy ground corn, sawed…

King Cotton

Binhammer Photographs, Photoblog, Roadside America Photo Series, Scarred Places Photo Series

What is: fields and fields and fields of cotton...some growing, some harvested, some planted. What was: "Cotton is King" In the years before the Civil War—American planters in the South continued to grow tobacco and rice but Cotton…

Dr. TRM Howard’s Home, Mound Bayou, Mississippi

Binhammer Photographs, Photoblog, Scarred Places Photo Series

What is: a vacant lot, where Dr. TRM Howard lived, Mound Bayou, Mississippi. His place burned down several years ago. What was: Mound Bayou is 42 miles away from Sumner, MS where the Emmett Till trial occurred. However, it is an essential…

Home of the Pamunkey Pottery Guild, Virginia

Binhammer Photographs, Photoblog, Roadside America Photo Series, Scarred Places Photo Series

Pottery School, Pamunkey Indian Reservation, King William County, Virginia. Home of the Pamunkey Potter's Guild since the early 1930s.

Aaron Henry’s 4th Street Drugstore, Clarksdale, MS

Binhammer Photographs, Photoblog, Scarred Places Photo Series

What is: The lot where Aaron Henry’s 4th St. Drug Store was located, Clarksdale, MS What was: Aaron Henry was born in 1922, the son of sharecroppers. He joined other members of his family and worked the cotton…