Friday, March 4, 2011

Night of the Southern Belles

Here's some inspiration for you budding movie makers looking for your big break.  It's just too bad there aren't many drive-in movie theaters anymore, because this would have been perfect.

You can make up your own plot, but here's what I'm thinking:
Following the deaths of their Confederate-soldier husbands and fiancees in the Civil War, these grieving southern belles haunt the swampland looking for revenge. No Yankee man is safe from them. The lovely ladies emerge silently out of the swamp, with their organza gowns and petticoats miraculously dry and unsoiled.  The ladies display the greatest poise as they beckon to the Yankee men, who are not accustomed to such things and are ill equipped to resist their beauty, grace, and southern charm. The lady may offer a mint julep, ask for assistance finding her lost parasol, or simply suggest a quiet stroll along the banks. Before the hapless northerner knows what has happened, he is being led into the swamp never to be seen alive again. It's terrible isn't it! A horror movie extraordinaire.

I'm not sure how the movie ends though. What do you think?

Thursday, March 3, 2011

One-Room Schoolhouse

Don't know where and don't know when, but Anna Ward went  to school here. There are probably people who can identify locations based on the trees and the terrain, but I certainly can't.


The imprint of the stamp box indicates that the card was printed between 1907 and 1929, but that doesn't tell us when Anna went to school.


Note on back reads:

School Were Anna Ward Whent to.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Marine Fire Department - Parris Island, South Carolina


The postage-free message sent from Private Lester W. Johnson to his mother reads:
Dear Mother
I am feeling good and hope you all are the same. Mother please send me Woudro and Marys address so I can write to them and tell them my address so they can write to me and how they are getting along. Good luck to all from your son Lester W. Johnson.

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