We just got back from a long weekend in Durham, North Carolina, for a friend’s wedding. I had a great time bummin’ around the area while my wife was busy on bridesmaid duty. Had some barbecue, heard some blues, and took a few pictures…
at Ponysaurus Brewing:
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at Carolina Soul Records, where I found some Sam Cooke, Dionne Warwick, and a Stax Records compilation:
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at Stagville, one of the largest plantations in the antebellum South—this one was in the “Great Barn”:
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I call this one “Freedom”:
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And there was the unintentional irony of a Master lock on one of the preserved slave cabins:
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The wedding reception was in a beautiful building near the Eno River State Park:
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And our last stop before our flight home was Duke University’s “chapel”, which, come on, is actually a cathedral of epic proportions:
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