My+South+-+4th+Block

Location, Location, Location Location plays a key role in the setting of the stories we have been reading lately. Location is also at the center of any discussion about the south. Find an image (or images) of “your south” and post it to the wiki space. Include a paragraph description of the image with your posting explaining the importance of your image. REMEMBER YOUR IMAGE NEEDS TO RELATE TO __LOCATION__ AND YOU NEED A PARAGRAPH TO EXPLAIN THE IMAGE.

I have never been to a worm grunting festival; I am not even sure what one is. However, I attended many festivals as a child in various southern cities. Growing up, the festival always signaled the arrival of spring and a hint in the air of a rapidly approaching summer. We were excited and looked forward to its arrival. We drank in as much of its glory as we could handle before the heat would become too much and the August humidity would bury us under a blanket of unbearable sticky heat. We’d try to retreat indoors or hide in our bedrooms but our parents would shoo us out and plop us back on our bikes and push us down the street into the haze of the summer sun. We’d waste away our afternoons until we’d imagined all of the possible scenarios in our made-up movie re-enactments, had played one too many games of 3-man baseball or packed up all the exhibits from our a self-promoted, self-produced backyard carnivals that were only ever attended by ourselves and the 3 or 4 neighborhood kids (even though admission only cost a leaf or two). The trees had been scaled, the wooded lots explored, and our fear of the local dogs, while not completely conquered, had at least been confronted and we felt an ounce or two braver by summer’s end. Regardless, it is always the festivals that remind me of spring in the South. In my hometown we had the Billy Bowlegs Festival. A week spent celebrating the scoundrel and pirate extraordinaire Augustus Bowles, the self-proclaimed “chief of all Indians” who rounded out his days in a Spanish cell somewhere in Havana refusing to eat or speak until his death in the early 1800s. For a week the town was taken over with the excitement of town treasure hunts, parades, and a celebration of everything pirate. In Plant City, Florida there is the Strawberry Festival. In Clewiston, the Sugar Festival. And Sopchoppy has their grunting worms. Regardless of the town or the festival, it’s the spirit and celebration of these events that make springtime in Southern towns something special.
 * bhlspectrum:**

Melanie Keenan: In this scene, you can see a fenced lot, with an empty lot. You see these often as you pass by in your car or truck, with the window down low. You can also see the sun rise and set behind this empty parking lot. This is also an injoyable sight to see after a long day's work as you head home. Usually this field is full of little children playing catch, or just taking a midnight stroll. In the south, these are common for family gatherings or for reunions. It looks calm,but also deserted and lonely when it is empty. It probably has many qualitys of the south that you can't see off the bat. This picture seems to be in the mid afternoon, or in the early evening.

Ana Delgado Before when I had not yet lived in Goergia, I didn't have a very clear image on what the south was like. Instead I would try to picture the settings in my mind. The only images I could think of were those from the stories I read from southern writers. The sunsets and the farmland. But perhaps I was imagining a too rural area such as those from the old days with no paved roads and even the people with thier own pecular accent. Soon afterwards moving to Georgia from California I could feel the difference much more different that that of what I was accustomed to. I soon realized that the air was even different much more humid and sticky, which is not a pleasant feeling. This image in particular brings me memories from the small town that Iived in for over seven years in particular because of the farmland. Because of the good soil in some areas of California many places are used for growing crops and therefor some neighborhoods are surrounded by land that is mainly used for growing vegetables and other crops. I remember that especially my brother six back then would get on the fields and pretend as if he were working on the fields. Everyday he would end up with dirt in his face and everywhere else... but it was fun. The reason I though Georgia was somewhat short on technology was because of all those stories I would read that only talked abot the nice sunsets ans unpaved roads. Perhaps this could have been in te old days, but now its much more different than what most souther stories talk about. This could be due to the fact that many of te southern writers mainly write about the type of things that did would accur in thier homeland, but in thier time, when time was nowhere to be compared to now.

Brandon Biggers This is showing a dirt road which is common in the south. By the trees on the side you can tell that it is part of Florida. If you look closely in the background you'll see a wooden house. If you put it all together it is in a rural area (country).

This is my south. I love it here. I was born and raised around these parts. All my family attends this school right here: Washinton -Wilkes Middle School. In this picture, you can tell that nothing has been done to the road/ parking lot. also, nothing has been edited to the school since my mom left this small town of Washington-Wilkes,Ga. This is just a glimpse of "My South".
 * BHL3:**

This image reminds me of the South because of it's nature like appearance. It strongly reminds me of the South most because while I was younger from the age of a baby when I could first remember to around the time I was almost done with 6th grade, my home was surrounded by these very trees for a long time. They weren't actually alive though because of beetles that had infected the pine trees. Over time, they were taken down and the results are what you can see on the piece of land in front of my house on Jefferson Rd. A few trees have been growing back over time but it will be many years from now, maybe when I'll be around the age of an old man if not even longer, when those trees will grow back to what they were before. In the mean time, there are however a few trees left of the once small forest I had in front of my house off to the side where there is now a road. Where that new road is now was also once covered by trees, at a much higher height in elevation. I played during those times back there when I couldn't do much of anything because there was just too many vines and trees and stuff getting in the way. Nearby my home was also a dirt road that people used only a few times a day because of the people that lived deeper into the forest. Now though, it's being used more and more often due to a gas station that was built over a piece of land that once held a warehouse on its land. My life as a small child through those woods always made me feel happy inside. I ran through them almost every day. Each time I think of the South, I think of the forests, the rivers, the open fields and farms, a peaceful sunset at dusk, and the sheets of rain that came during storms. And most of all, I thought of these trees, the trees that I lived with when a very young child. It was my little place from the world. To me, the forest isn't just a location. It isn't just wood. It isn't just something. It's my home from home. When I'm in the forest now, I'm at peace.
 * Michael Phillip Coffee (Vereaux):**


 * This land is located in the south. The south is known for agriculture, and land like this can be seen deep in the south. If this land were to be destroyed, or have something built over it, this would take away the life and history away from the south. Before there were, skyscrapers, homes, and buildings, there was land and without this land the south would be nothing.

-Angelia Ellis

This picture I personally took myself. This reminds me of the deep south because of all the country roads there are. These country roads to me are so peaceful, they help me relax alot. As your riding down one of the calm country roads, you tend to forget all your problems, and soon become worry free and relaxed. I grew up around the country, all my family is from the deep south, living in the middle of nowhere. So its all natrual to me, thats why I think I love it so much.

-Danielle Griffin

I also personally took this picture. It reminds me of the deep south all because of the deep souths wonderful sunsets. They are so beautiful down in the south, especially out in the country side of Georgia. Growing up here, makes my raising all better, because we have such beautiful landmarks, that some people don't even pay attention to. Which to me is a shame, because people pay to see all this beautiful senery, but we have it right in front of our faces when we don't even know it. I thought when i took this picture it was just so beautiful and how it was great to be a southener, so thats why I decided to post this picture also.

-Danielle Griffin

** The picture above shows the diiferene of two colored skins, but still the same. Even the it might be different in color, it is the same within the body. This picture represents A white foot( bossed around the blacks) and a black foot(bossed around by the whites). The blacks did all of the dirty work for the whites while the whites just laid back and watched. To me this picture also represents Two differnet raceis coming together, to end segragation. When all races cme together, the world will be a better place according to god. "All men(refering to everyone and everything), are created equally. This relates to the South because slavery was held throughout the South back in the 1800's and so on. I brought this picture up because blacks and whites get along today, but some blacks are still treated differnet as if slavery is still going on.
 * __By: Fakari Gresham__**

Destinee Heard This picture is a picture of the double barrelled cannon here in Athens at the City HAll

Cassi14:



I picked this image because it looks like something I would see in Jackson Co. or Madison Co. I looks so southern because of the dirt road, the barn shaped house, and the open acres. The image kinda looks like the description of the house in //Pig on a Stick//, except for the hog. This picture is my south because when I was younger, my fanily owned a house in Oglethorpe Co. and it looked somewhat like this one except for all the open space, but it just brings back good memories.

Ambrianna



Well I decided to do two pictures instead of one. These are photos of where I grew up from in Madison County, Georgia. They are pictures of the "Watson Mill Bridge" and the "madison County Courthose". I consider Madison County as the south because it really is and it looks like it.It's country from the people down to the dirt roads and everyone knows everyone. The town "Comer" makes Madison county seem small but it's actually bigger than Athens. There is alot of dirt roads, land, and farms. The houses are old like you would imagine in the south but there are many quiet modernized neighborhoods. I tell my mom everytime we pass one that I'm going to move back up there when I get older because the houses are beautiful and there is alot of yard. There is only one elementary, middle, and high school. The accents are rather strong but not like "hillbilly" country.They say things such as "I reckon" (I think) and "rench" (rinse). To me it's home and I'd rather live there than in Athens.People think it's boring and nothing to do for fun but the thing is you have to make things fun. I mean how do you think they had fun back in the day? People sell fruits and things out of their yards and in town in front of postoffices beacuse sometimes the stores can be a while from your house.

Edward Diaz 4th Block This picture reminds me alot of the south because the south has alot agricultural eliments.This also reminds me of the south's past.The south always had a big agricultural economy. Usually when I think of the south i think of big flat areas or a big farmland.In the back round you don't really see any houses so i would say that this is a rural area. The south is not very crowded so this picture fits the south.