Plantation
“In minutes, I 1 2 6 D o r o t h e a B e n t o n F r a n k was passing the Penny Creek Landing, the Shiloh Baptist Church, the New Bethlehem AME Church, and the infamous Blue Garden Social Club. On my right were other plantations—Prospect Hill, Wilton Bluff, the Hermitage—and finally, the wall that ran the length of the front of my mother’s property came into view.
The foundation was made of bricks, all of them handmade over one hundred and fifty years ago. Short columns rose up at regular inter...vals of about twenty feet. In between the columns and resting on the base stood beautiful wrought-iron fencing, each one of its thin spears twisted like taffy with a sharp arrowhead on its top—the kind you shouldn’t jump.
I pulled into the private road of Tall Pines and entered the pass code to open the gates. The ancient gates were filled with wrought-iron ducks, turkeys, and pine trees. I used to think the gates were stupid and now I saw them as extraordinary. They swung open and I passed slowly down the avenue of Spanish moss–draped live oaks, bumping along the hard-packed earth.MoreLess
The foundation was made of bricks, all of them handmade over one hundred and fifty years ago. Short columns rose up at regular inter...vals of about twenty feet. In between the columns and resting on the base stood beautiful wrought-iron fencing, each one of its thin spears twisted like taffy with a sharp arrowhead on its top—the kind you shouldn’t jump.
I pulled into the private road of Tall Pines and entered the pass code to open the gates. The ancient gates were filled with wrought-iron ducks, turkeys, and pine trees. I used to think the gates were stupid and now I saw them as extraordinary. They swung open and I passed slowly down the avenue of Spanish moss–draped live oaks, bumping along the hard-packed earth.MoreLess
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