It's well into 2018 and catching up is overdue. I have spent the past several months in coastal Georgia slowly developing and building Memory Trail, an outdoor exhibit chronicling the voyage of the slave ship
Wanderer through the lives of enslaved survivors. Due to current affairs the interpretation has
become more difficult to balance. There is still much to be done but I
am excited and hopeful. It has become a challenge I feel strongly about
in many ways.
Southeastern Georgia, like Northeast
Florida, where I spent the most years in a single area, is not immune to
cold winters. Its relative for sure, but not uncommon to be well under
freezing conditions for stretches during the Southern winter. Working
outside has been nippy especially since we start at 6:30. But it's right
on the water and the great marshes of Glenn stretch as far as you can
see. So its pull on the insulated coveralls, grab the thermos and have
fun until the late afternoon bourbon is poured.
I was
home for three weeks over the holidays enjoying the extended family that
converged on our small Virginia home. Plans were set to move Annie to
Deltaville to get new sails fitted and made but the cold weather
cancelled it. It looks like another month will go by but I'm hell bent
to get her back on a close haul by spring.
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| Beginnings of interactive on the bench |
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| Job site |
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| Looking south |
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| One of the ceramic path markers |
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| setting poles for African hut |
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| Hut ready for stucco |
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| thatching |
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| building farm shed in the shop |
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| farm shed on site |
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| from a series of watercolors I am working on to tell story |
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| threading stainless rod |
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| Beginning of interactive |
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| Deburring graphic panel brackets |
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| Carving pestle used for hulling rice on plantations |
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| Intracoastal Waterway out the front window where I'm staying |
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| Remnants of Hurricane Irma |
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| My mobile 'shop' |
