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“Faces” of the Piney
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Portraits two |
Portraits three |
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1.
Gillis Carter steps to the side with his hack to reveal a fresh streak
cut at the top of the face on one of the turpentine trees near the road
in his front yard near Willacoochee. Carter hopes his educational
roadside display will keep the memory of the turpentine era alive.
Photo by Tim Prizer, 2003.
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Gillis Carter poses with the lid to an old wooden turpentine barrel made
by a cooper. Often, coopers hammered in tempo and sang songs in rhythm
with their daily work. Photo by Tim Prizer, 2003.
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3. Gillis Carter
explains to his grandson that the gum dripping from the dip paddle was
cooked in order to make turpentine. With a sense of nostalgia, he
passes on the tradition of turpentining to a child who will likely live
to see even the vestiges of the turpentine industry disappear from this
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4. Octogenarian Anthrom
Green of Jacksonville, pictured here with his grandson, clearly recalls
working in turpentine during the 1930s around Soperton, Georgia. Photo
courtesy of Anthrom Green. |
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5. Wilburt Johnson, 82,
worked turpentine in Atkinson County, Georgia, for most of his life.
Photo by Tim Prizer, 2004. |
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6. George “G.W.”
Harrington, pictured here in 1957, grew up in turpentine camps and
worked in naval stores from1943-1950. Much of his youth was spent in
the Greenwood Camp outside Stockton, owned by the Southern Resin &
Chemical Co. and managed from 1941-1960 by his father, Jake “J.L.”
Harrington. Photo by Joseph O. Rodgers, Jr., courtesy of George
Harrington and Lowndes County Historical Society and Museum. |
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7. George Music, Jr.,
of Waycross still works some trees on the family property. Here he
poses by the stump of one of the first trees he worked as a boy. Photo
by Tim Prizer, 2002.
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8. George Music, Jr.
also plays fiddle and sings harmony with his local bluegrass band,
Tri-Country. Photo by Tim Prizer, 2002. |
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Portals:
Portraits one |
Portraits two |
Portraits three |
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