Day 2, Wilmington NC to Conyers GA
Miles: | 408 |
Start Point: | Wilmington, NC |
Start Weather: | At 6:00 AM EDT the temperature was 55.3 ° with 95% humidity. The conditions were overcast with a wind speed of 4.5 MPH and wind gusts of 7.6 MPH. |
End Point: | Conyers, GA |
End Weather: | At 6:00 PM EDT the temperature was 60.8 ° with 65% humidity. The conditions were drizzle with a wind speed of 4.4 MPH and wind gusts of 11.4 MPH. |
Sun Rise: | 7:08 AM EDT |
Sun Set: | 7:52 PM EDT |
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Previous 40 to Phoenix Rides
This is my 3rd 40 to Phoenix ride. I have visited just about all the Route 66 sites I want to see and have written about them in previous years. To read about this day and see photos from previous years, please see
Day 2, 2017
and
Day 2, 2018.
Rain and More Rain
This morning the weather radar on my iPad showed the clouds had moved through during the night and were off the coast so we expected a rain free day. It was not to be. We did not get drenched but we had off and on drizzle for several hours. Also today did not offer much in the way of photos.
South Carolina State Line
Laurie
However I have some photos to share that we took over the last two weekends. Dorothea Lange took photographs for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the Great Depression. You can read about her life and photography on Wikipedia.org.
One of her well known photos is of a country store in Gordonton, North Carolina, July1939.
I found a neat article at WalterMagazine.com that had some thought provoking insights. Here is a snippet.
Further scrutiny of the old photo invites speculation about what it felt like to live in 1939 Person County. The presence of an electric meter, barely visible over the man on the right in the photo, assures us that the fellow guzzling his soda pop was probably enjoying one that was refreshingly cold. This was when only about 11 percent of rural North Carolina had electricity.But most compelling to me -and a testament to Lange's skill as a photographer and student of the people she photographed -is the curiosity about her subjects that the image invokes.
Would the black men on the porch have been allowed inside the store at a time when Jim Crow dictated race relations? Rainey Baynes and the men seem to be engaged in easy banter and surely knew each other well. I grew up in rural Arkansas in the '50s while Jim Crow still very much held sway, but the country store down the road let blacks freely enter and do business. In town they would have to go to a window around back. I think Baynes let them inside.
What day was the photo taken? The men aren't dressed for field work. This question was answered by research confirming that it was taken on a Sunday (no blue laws in rural N.C.).
Bobby, Laurie
Elevation Changes During the Day
The day started at 21 feet and ended at 847 feet. The highest altitude was 847 feet and the lowest altitude was 5 feet.