Black and White – Page 63 – photography from the Chesapeake Bay watershed by Bill Emory

fistful of dollars

bookie — Is it legal to gamble at sporting events? Was it legal in 1972? What did you call these guys who took bets? Fall 1972, Middleburg Races.

Auctions

50 cent per head charge for livestock weighed which is not consigned for sale through market
to avoid complaints watch livestock being weighed

white guys — Tobacco auction

Estate auction, 1970’s

Mortgage lifter, beeves

tobacco warehouse — 1972 +/-, tobacco auction, Petersburg, Virginia. Nicotiana tabacum! Folklore 101, doing field work for a Chuck Perdue class.

cattle auction — Madison Livestock Market.

Fred

Fred Alexander — Fred Alexander lived in Madison County north of Orange, near the Rapidan on Royal Lane. He saved architectural treasures, played jazz, loved animals and tolerated me. This in 1973 +/-

Does Eat Place

Greenville Mississippi — J.R. Ewing-Is he dead?

Bad Dog

junkyard dog — German police, Jacksonville Florida junkyard, 1980

Bad dog sign — Charlottesville VA, 2000, Belmont

Markham's dog Francie, Waco, Texas — Markham’s dog Francie, beware!

Meleagris gallopavo

Martha's Vineyard turkey tracks — Martha’s Vineyard turkey tracks

Rosni Farm

16mm frame from winter feeding, Rosni Farm, Madison County Virginia, 1977. At the time Rosni had the oldest registered herd of Holsteins in the state. More photos here.

Milky Way Farms

cow and calf — Who makes life sized Holstein figurines? Great to live in a place where the cow and calf are not stolen from the front yard.

Clothing optional

Lucy Vincent Beach — Low tide. Went for a walk. Surf covering the beach, nowhere dry to walk as opposed to last March. No one out making use of the clothing optional feature…