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essay .................... "A recourse that could be depended upon" Picking Blackberries and Getting By after the Civil War by Bruce E. Baker "Along with any number of childhood blackberrying expeditions with my grandparents in the mountains of Western North Carolina, picking blackberries always reminds me of summers in upstate South Carolina in the early 1980s when I was eleven or twelve. My brother and I would go through the woods and across the creek to Mr. Jamison's pasture and pick several buckets of blackberries in the mornings." Seventy years earlier: Homer Hunt, picking blackberries in Maretburg, Kentucky, photographed by Lewis Hine, courtesy of the Collections of the Library of Congress. ne day last year, at the end of July, I walked down to Runnymede, alongside the River Thames, and picked a mess of blackberries. Since I had no one to please but myself, I made a cobbler and had just that for supper, at a cost of maybe fifty pence all told. Along with any number of childhood blackberrying expeditions with my grandparents in the mountains of Western North Carolina, picking blackberries always reminds me of summers in upstate South Carolina in the early 1980s when I was
Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Nov 7, 2010
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