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Passageway: 1944
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 07/24/2010 - 10:08pm.
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October 1944. Wilkes County, Georgia. "Woods Plantation Country House, Washington vicinity." Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. View full size.
Breeze carefully
Submitted by JohnHoward on Sun, 07/25/2010 - 4:49pm.
If you breezed through there without the homeowner's approval, you might get a load of buckshot in the pants on your way out.
The Rifle
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Sun, 07/25/2010 - 3:55pm.
must be for when the revenuers would come.
Bang
Submitted by Mal Fuller on Sun, 07/25/2010 - 1:18pm.
Okay, I've waited two days now for someone to say something about the rifle on the wall. I guess it's up to me.
Defend yourself
Submitted by Pharmer on Sun, 07/25/2010 - 11:11am.
I am not sure that I would fire that shotgun before checking the barrel to see if the mud dauber wasps had plugged it.
My First Thought
Submitted by DebInKY on Sat, 07/24/2010 - 10:51pm.
I was excited to open the comment and it was "breezeway"; that was exactly what I thought when I scrolled down to the picture. Growing up in Oregon, my friends house had one. We always played in the breezeway.
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