Mindbend Riverbend...Riding the horse-drawn carriages and hearing the guide’s tales of Old...
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MindbendRiverbend
an American Photobook
Thomas Anderson2014
Louisville, KentuckyCincinnati, Ohio
Maysville, KentuckyCharleston, South Carolina
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The Holy CityCharleston, SC
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Though I will always be a visitor to Charleston I will always remain one with a passionate belief that it is the most beautiful city in America and that to walk the old section of the city at night is to step into the bloodstream of a history extravagantly lived by a people born to a fierce and unshakable advocacy of their past. To walk in the spire-proud shade of Church Street is to experience the chronicle of a mythology that is particular to the city and the city alone, a trinitarian mythology with equal parts of the sublime, the mysterious, and the grotesque.
Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline, Dial Press reprint 2002.
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Charleston, SC
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Charleston, SC
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Charleston, SC
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Charleston, SC
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Charleston, SC
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Charleston, SC
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Charleston, SC
The Charleston in the tourist's fantasy is a city that's done and gone. What today the vacationer sees South of Broad street is a pastiche of the romantic, chivalrous Old and New South. While still charming as a well-cultivated nostalgia industry and fortress of the lost cause, Charleston struggles to maintain an illusion. Riding the horse-drawn carriages and hearing the guide’s tales of Old Charleston, the modern tourists, while respectful, are unmoved by the city's past. But the carriage drivers nonetheless press the tourists toward awe and acceptance of Charleston’s special place. The murders, divorces, and political scandals of Antebellum's Holy City, while all true, are not uniquely Southern. Why shouldn’t these houses give up their toxic family secrets? Any city in America has them. But the last weapon in his arsenal, as the guide reminds us, are Charleston’s ghosts haunting the nocturnal streets and alleys, what the locals call the "night walkers". There’s that cadre of Citadel cadets, who fired on Fort Sumter and started a war, now proud watchmen of the darkened city.
So, while the Charleston visitor yearns for the authentic city, he's confronted by a flood of souvenir seekers disgorged daily from the tour ships docked on the wharf. It’s not long before the tourist gives up on the fantasy and settles for today’s Charleston and, being a good sport, is willing to go along with and to some extent enjoy the charade of nostalgia.
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Charleston, SC
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Charleston, SC
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Charleston, SC
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The Charleston in the tourist’s fantasy is a city that’s done and gone. What today the vacationer sees South of Broad street is a pastiche of the romantic, chivalrous Old South. While still charming as a well-cultivated nostalgia industry and fortress of the lost cause, Charleston struggles to maintain an illusion. Riding the horse-drawn carriages and hearing the guide’s tales of Old Charleston, the modern tourists, while respectful, are unmoved by the city’s past. But the carriage drivers nonetheless press the tourists toward awe and acceptance of Charleston’s special place. The murders, divorc-es, and political scandals of Antebellum’s Holy City, while all true, are not uniquely Southern. Why shouldn’t these houses give up their toxic family secrets? Any city in America has them. But the last weapon in his arsenal, as the guide reminds us, are Charleston’s ghosts haunting the nocturnal streets and alleys, what the locals call the “night walkers”. There’s that cadre of Citadel cadets, who fired on Fort Sumter and started a war, now proud watchmen of the darkened city.
So, while the Charleston visitor yearns for the authentic city, he’s confronted by a flood of souvenir seekers disgorged daily from the tour ships docked on the wharf. It’s not long before the tourist gives up on the fantasy and settles for today’s Charleston and, being a good sport, is willing to go along with and to some extent enjoy the charade of nostalgia.uuu
The Queen CityCincinnati, Ohio
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Cincinnati, Ohio
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Cincinnati, Ohio
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Cincinnati, Ohio
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Cincinnati, Ohio
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Cincinnati, Ohio
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Cincinnati, Ohio
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Cincinnati, Ohio
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Cincinnati, Ohio
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Cincinnati, Ohio
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Cincinnati, Ohio
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Cincinnati, Ohio
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Cincinnati, Ohio
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Cincinnati, Ohio
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Cincinnati, Ohio
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Maysville, KYLast stop on the Underground Railroad
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Maysville, KY
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Maysville, KY
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The “Ville”Louisville, Kentucky
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Louisville, KY
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Louisville, KY
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Louisville, KY
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Louisville, KY
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Louisville, KY
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Louisville, KY
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Louisville, KY
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Louisville, KY
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Louisville, KY
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Louisville, KY
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Louisville, KY
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Louisville, KY
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Louisville, KY
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Louisville, KY