Thoughts and Works in Progress

Entrance to the balcony at the Paramount Theatre, Clarksdale, MS

This old, covered stairway in a parking lot behind the Paramount Movie Theatre in downtown Clarksdale is the entrance for blacks to the segregated balcony in the movie theatre.

Riverside Hotel, Clarksdale, MS

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The Riverside Hotel in Clarksdale, MS is one of the only African American hotels in Jim Crow Mississippi, it was listed in the Greenbook and played host to a Who's Who of blues and R&B legends. Some say it is where Rock and Roll was born.

Abandoned Sharecropping Home, Mississippi

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What is: This is just around the corner from where Muddy Waters lived on the Stoval Plantation, Abandoned Sharecropping Home at the edge of the fields, Stovall Plantation, MS What was: Typical sharecropper shack was usually located with the…

General Grant’s Cabin, Hopewell, VA

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What is: General Grant’s cabin at the Eppes Plantation What was: For nearly a year, General Grant occupied a tent and later a cabin here, while he commanded his army in the final months of the Civil War. Grant hosted several visiting dignitaries,…

The Melody Motel and Inn, Waverly, Virginia

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Its a short story...and in a year since this was taken...It's gone. Highway 460, Waverly, Virginia. The abandoned (and now destroyed) Melody Motel/ Inn. Neighboring Adult Video Store

Howard Johnson’s

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What is: the signature orange roof but the weather vane is gone and the building os overgown by vines. Could be anywhere in the USA. This one is at the interchange of the Blue Ridge Parkway and Shenandoah National Park. What was: The weather…