Lula and I recently made our way up to her birthplace, Greenville, for a weekend of hijinx. We wandered out to the Bourbon Mall for dinner and the next day staggered into the justifiably legendary McCormick Book Inn for a present for our hosts. There I gawked over a reproduction of a letter sent to Shelby Foote’s book agent from the Saturday Evening Post, offering $750 if he could trim a story do 22 pages, and picked up a copy of Lanterns on the Levee, much to the pleasure of Mr. McCormick. “I’ve never read it before,” I told him. “I read it constantly,” he replied.
It’s also where I saw a photograph of the Percy family’s plot in Greenville Cemetary, just a couple hundred yards from the Inn. Lula indulged me enough to stand in the shade and try to capture the majesty and grace of the memorials honoring this remarkable family.
Sadly, we did not have the opportunity to run into Lula’s second cousin once removed, Mr. Aloysius Percy, but I hope to meet him soon.
Polaroid 420 Land Camera + 669 film.
Tags: Bourbon Mall, Greenville, McCormick Book Inn, polaroid, W.A. Percy, Walker Percy
Great pics of the Percy plot! Despite my Percy (Walker Percy that is) fandom I’ve never been to Greenville. I should make the drive.
Say, does that mean that Leroi Percy is also Lula’s cousin? Because he works with me now.
This was such a wonderful weekend!
Thank you for capturing this information and sharing it with your polaroid fans.
Gorjus:
Found a site for you. For when the last Polaroid comes clrshushing-whirring out of the camera.
Check out: http://www.poladroid.net/—retro for the future.
that’s http://www.poladroid.net
somehow my comment got tagged into the URL and it goes nowhere
if you don’t watch out, us delta folk may make you one of us…in good standing, at least.