[virgil283]

.....; . . .

video clip of Michael Ford's film :

http://www.yellowcat.com/documentaries/homeplace

[Sherman Logan]

Ford's original footage includes highly significant clips including a black man eating lunch at the counter in Mr. Waldrip's general store for the time

A somewhat incoherent remark, but I think they're trying to go for the whole end of segregation at the lunch counter thing. But of course by the early 70s discrimination at the lunch counter had been illegal for a decade.

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

Two aspects of this surprise me. One, it acknowledges that this way of life ended long ago. And, it depicts a people who were happy with their lives. It chronicles a man and his family who came there and found enough "good" to make them decide to stay.

Neither of these tenets is in tune with what "Progressives" would have us believe about the South! Yes, things were bad, but we've come a long way toward correcting them. And, things were not any worse here than they were all over the country. Difference is, people "up north" won't acknowledge their racist past!

[Defiant]

Now I feel old. These 1970s photos are described like those WW1 pictures that were found in an attic.

[ansel12]

Little things that not all people think to do to.

Notice the little hole that was dug, to adjust the level of the work to his height?

[vetvetdoug]

50 miles from here but many aspects in the pictures are still in use. There are a few stores left, people still make sorghum molasses the same way, there are a couple of blacksmiths left, and the downtowns look much the same. Crime in Holly Springs is up with the Obama voters and meth makers as it is all along NE Mississippi. I have friends that have to call the police when they collect the money from the washerteria in downtown Holly Springs because they have been robbed twice at gun point in the last two months.

[easternsky]

Born and raised in S.F.East Bay. Drafted in Late 66, after Basic, We were sent, for Helicopter Training, to Ft. Rucker Alabama. Wife and I rented a little house in the little town of Newton. We were both quite shocked at the segregation that was still very rampant in that area. We had already made the transition in California. The rural areas of the South were much slower. Seemed to be by choice on both sides.

[ckilmer]

Except for the woman behind the counter, I didn’t see any of them carrying extra weight.

[SquarePants]

I grew up in that area. I remember going to Sardis Lake a couple of times each summer. It was a great place and a great time to grow up. Living in NYC now I miss it greatly.

[ops33]

Some good faces.
The street scene shows US highway 78 in red. What does the red signify?