Tractor and flag along Jack's Shop Road - Madison County, Virginia 

Tom Fuller - 1925 - 1987 

My father served with the United States Navy in the Pacific during World War II. Like so many of his generation, Dad always knew what was important. I am proud to be his son.

W.A. Hartman Memorials - Charlottesville, Virginia

House and garage - Gordonsville, Virginia

"I'm coming to understand how memories are imposed on the past and also how they get lost. We reach a point where we do not know whether we remember an actual event or an imagined one; we cannot remember whether a significant event actually happened. In studying a photograph, which is documented proof of our presence at an event, we analyze the event as if we had been there, when for the purposes of memory we had not, for it has vanished from the mind."

From Clear Springs: A Family Story by Bobbie Ann Mason, 1999

House on the outskirts of Madison, Virginia

This house caught my eye as I was driving through Madison last week. The house is partially boarded up and looks neglected. To my knowledge there is no historic or architectural significance to this modest structure, but it is nevertheless nice to see that it is for sale, and not abandoned.

Old house on Jack's Shop Road - Madison County, Virginia

"Near the garden, the house where I was raised sits forlornly in the woods; weeds and grass and bushes are slowly strangling it. A hole has appeared in the roof, as if a concrete block has been dropped by a passing airplane. . . . I 'm on my way to the creek to pick blackberries, but I can't resist circling around our old house one last time. In my gumshoes, I almost step on a nail sticking up from a shingle that is dissolving in the mud. I have spiked my feet on rusty nails on this farm before. I notice a nearby sinkhole carpeted with leaves--that was the septic tank. If I stepped there, I might disappear." 

From Clear Springs: A Family Story by Bobbie Ann Mason, 1999

 

Mountain cabin - Greene County, Virginia