bob h wrote:
> 
> If you saw the message I posted at p.o-t. you'll know what this is, thought
> I'd go ahead and show everyone what I am doing.  Summed up, it's a rendition
> of where my Dad was born, Fairview, AL in a slave cabin on a old plantation
> in 1933 which is gone now.  He asked if I could draw it out in map form
> after he sketched the place out and had shown the area to me last week, all
> a neighborhood now with the Black's cemetary in someones yard and street
> now.  The White's cemetary at the corner of a schoolyard.  The cabin had tin
> roof and vertical overlapping planks, central fireplace with no interior
> walls, that he could remember anyway, but more or less two rooms.  Doors on
> two sides, windows on the other sides.  The attached image isn't too great
> but it's a start.
> 
> I'm always a bit foggy on the whole story of how his family ended up there
> at the time (house burned down I guess) so i won't try to go into detail
> here.  At least until I'm clearer on it anyway  :-)
> 
> I looked for pictures on the Internet of slave houses, slave quarters and
> slave cabins to see if I could find something similar.  I didn't.  Most of
> them were much better places, like motels or dorms, obviously on the better
> plantations too.  One photo I saw was similar, except the walls were stucco
> or something, in Florida.

Bob, this cabin reminds me of the ones
in the film 'The Cider House Rules'.


Tor Olav

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