May 2, 2010, at Flat Creek near Beatrice, Alabama, an infrared photograph by Carol M. Highsmith, via the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
for the creek racks
strongest in springtime when everything’s liquid,
tightroping over the rocks
in the plashing braid. . .— Jonathan Galassi, from “Flow“
“The Lodge” at Eutaw Plantation, Berkeley County, South Carolina, 1938, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The plantation was established by William and Elizabeth Sinkler in the early 1800s. Their descendants owned it until the 1940s, when the South Carolina Public Service Authority flooded the area to build the Santee Cooper hydroelectric project. The estate now lies beneath Lake Marion.
The Lodge — built to resemble a Greek temple — was used as a medical office by a physician member of the family.
I came to explore the wreck. . . .
I came to see the damage that was done
and the treasures that prevail.— Adrienne Rich, from “Diving into the Wreck“
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