a blog about neo-agrarian problem solving, reclaiming the link between rustic and industrial.

Monday, May 28, 2018

Bilboian high style in Oak Hill

those fine folks at the Yellow Deli whose generosity is only matched by their culinary skills have crafted  
a an interior to make Bilbo Baggins feel right at home, check out their onion soup



Friday, May 25, 2018

Bob Wyler's photography of Delaware County, Mid 20c

 handcuffed man with wife he just murdered
 cleaning the river
 1939 milk strike
confiscated from bootleggers


Bob Wyer (1908-1982) documented life in Delaware County as photojournalist and studio photographer from the early 1930s on through the 1970s. He photographed the mundane: graduating seniors, weddings, family portraits, funerals, etc — through the sensational: accidents, floods, strikes, murders scenes, etc.  In the late 1970s, Bob and his wife Billie Wyer generously donated their collection of over 150,000 negatives to the Delaware County Historical Association.
on exhibit at the DCHA

Sunday, May 6, 2018

James Harold Jennings, Pennville N.C.

one of the original farmy punkers, crack brained backwoods art cobblers turned folky hermit artisan before his untimely death in 1999  who lived "kinda Low" in a compound of shacks and decrepit church buses, visitors beware.