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October 06, 2007
> 10:24 PM
harlan pilgrimage II  Yes, you saw it first here - Creech Chapel. And you never expected that line underneath there = "Primitive Baptist Church," nice. No, I haven't started another church and I'm not moving back to Harlan. I've meant to take a picture of that old place many times but it requires sitting still in the middle of the road in your car on an old two lane road, but I got it! This is the sign on the front of an old church building in Harlan, Kentucky, where I was born and the land of my ancestors. It's near a place called Totz - don't ask me where that name came from. Anyway, it was a church started by one of my great Uncles, who was a preacher there a long time ago. I never knew him. I never even knew his brother, my Pappaw, who died when I was a baby, but it's fun that this place is still there. It's not used now - grown over and in pretty bad shape. I took this picture today, on the second day of a little overnight Harlan pilgrimage with my very good, old childhood friend Brian Thornton. We've been trying to do this for a few years and finally got it to happen. We made it coincide with a football game at our old High School - James A. Cawood High. We went down yesterday, checked into a surprisingly nice Holiday Inn Express and started tracking people down. We went to our old school. It was a bit of an in-service day so mostly only teachers were there. We got to walk the halls, take some photos, and catch up with a couple of our old school mates who now teach there.I haven't been in those halls for a good long time. My Dad was a teacher there my whole childhood and while I was there (yes I did have him for an English class once) and so was Brian's father. They were friends and that's how we met. We've probably known each other longer than anyone not in our respective families, since we were about 3 I guess. It was wild to be able to hang around in there for a bit - very much the same. Good too because after this school year, Cawood High School will be no more. All the county high schools in Harlan are being consolidated into one large Harlan County High School - should be interesting.  Anyway, we connected with another very good old friend and her family, and made it to a football game, which they won! Go Trojans! ha. We saw a couple more old friends there and had a good time talking to them. We then ate dinner at Pizza Hut - this was the place we used to do this after all the games or plays, etc. That was cool. We drove around to all the old places we used to know, our houses, friends' houses, etc. This last image is looking at my old neighborhood - that was my horizon-line there, and they go all the way around. OK, I'm sure you've heard enough about that. You can see more photos on my flickr page here. Peace.technorati tags > harlan, harlan kentucky, cawood high school Labels: personal 0 Comments:| permalink | e-mail me | 
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