This image won Best In Show in the 2004 Scottsville Art Show, a show that included painting, sculpture and other art forms besides photography.
The photo was taken in Upper Marlboro, Maryland - the heart what was once tobacco country (as in, Marlboro cigarettes). My wife's family owned the tobacco market there for generations. The market had been closed for three years by the time we were there, and was soon to be sold.
The whole building was like a time capsule from the '50s. In the office, a hundred years of paper handwritten ledgers on the shelf, one still open on the desk, a hat hanging from a rack next to the keys. Hanging on wall next to a map of the county was a "hand" of tobacco, still wearing a third place ribbon from the local fair.
Now the former farming community has been swallowed by the DC suburbs.
The photo was taken in Upper Marlboro, Maryland - the heart what was once tobacco country (as in, Marlboro cigarettes). My wife's family owned the tobacco market there for generations. The market had been closed for three years by the time we were there, and was soon to be sold.
The whole building was like a time capsule from the '50s. In the office, a hundred years of paper handwritten ledgers on the shelf, one still open on the desk, a hat hanging from a rack next to the keys. Hanging on wall next to a map of the county was a "hand" of tobacco, still wearing a third place ribbon from the local fair.
Now the former farming community has been swallowed by the DC suburbs.
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Tobacco Hand, 3rd Place County Fair
Copyright 2004 - B.L.Long