{"id":426,"date":"2008-05-17T07:44:58","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T14:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=426"},"modified":"2008-05-17T07:44:58","modified_gmt":"2008-05-17T14:44:58","slug":"from-mamas-house-to-my-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=426","title":{"rendered":"From Mama's house to my house"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMama’s roses<\/em><\/p>\n

All these photos were taken yesterday. I let the GPS device pick a route from Mama’s house to my place in Stokes. I told the GPS device to pick a route that led past a particular place along the Yadkin River where I’d remembered seeing an old mill 30 years ago, and I told it to stay off the main roads. What a route! I knew some of the roads, but others were completely new to me. This was an amazingly scenic route that just happened to lead past the places where parts of three movies were filmed: Junebug<\/a> (Pinnacle, Stokes County), Cabin Fever<\/a> (Priddy’s General Store, Stokes County), and Leatherheads<\/a> (Donnaha, Yadkin County). This area is rich in agricultural history. More posts on agricultural history another day. It took me along the foot of Pilot Mountain<\/a>. The route also led past two old Stokes County resorts — Vade Mecum and Moore’s Springs — and it took me past the entrance to Hanging Rock State Park<\/a>, not to mention downtown Danbury (the Stokes county seat) and Priddy’s General Store, where I stopped to get a Cheerwine<\/a> and say hello to Jane Priddy-Charleville, who runs the store. It took me past a winery that I was not previously aware of, about which I’ll post another day.<\/p>\n

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\nMama’s young grapevines<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nThe mill on the Yadkin<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nMachinery in the mill on the Yadkin<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nMore of the mill on the Yadkin<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nCogwheel at the mill on the Yadkin<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nCadillac in the barn by the mill on the Yadkin<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nThe hardworking owner of the mill on the Yadkin<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nMoore’s Springs, Stokes County<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nPilot Mountain<\/em><\/p>\n

w-m17-11-vade-mecum-1.JPG<\/a>
\nVade Mecum (Stokes County), now a summer camp<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nThe road to Vade Mecum<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nA Yadkin Valley homestead<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nAnother Yadkin Valley homestead<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nResidents of a Yadkin Valley homestead<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nSecurity guard at Priddy’s General Store<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nPriddy’s General Store<\/em><\/p>\n

w-m17-18-priddys-3.JPG<\/a>
\nThe owner of Priddy’s General Store<\/em><\/p>\n

w-m17-19-farm-machine-1.JPG<\/a>
\nHow they did it then<\/em><\/p>\n

w-m17-20-farm-machine-2.JPG<\/a>
\nHow they do it now<\/em><\/p>\n

w-m17-21-farm-machine-3.JPG<\/a>
\nHow they did it then again<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mama’s roses All these photos were taken yesterday. I let the GPS device pick a route from Mama’s house to my place in Stokes. I told the GPS device to pick a route that led past a particular place along the Yadkin River where I’d remembered seeing an old mill 30 years ago, and I … Continue reading “From Mama's house to my house”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-rural-issues","category-stokes-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}