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N Gertrude Street, Abbeville, Louisiana.
Saint-Valery-sur-Somme by Jacob Philipp Hackert
104 victory ace Major Adolf Galland, Gruppenkommandeur JG 26 Schlageter climbs out of his Messerschmitt Bf 109E-4, Abbeville-Drucat, France, October 1940. For more, see my Facebook group - Eagles Of The Reich
Book 549
Maps of the Heavens
George Sergeant Snyder
Abbeville Press 1984
So, this pretty exciting for me. Less so, I’m guessing, for everyone else. But this is the first book on my last honest-to-goodness, purpose-built bookshelf. Which is not to say that I’m almost done—only that the rest of my books are either on things not designed to hold books or on the floor. It’s the bottom shelf, so it holds some of my tallest books. Most every book on the shelf is at least 14” tall. And as a general rule, the taller my books, the more interesting they are.
Just when I think I’ve done with cartography books, I find this—with more on the way. Although why this book should look as boring as it does, I have no idea. It’s actually really cool. In essence, this book of constellation maps from around the world, dating from between c. 1200-1800, is a timeline of humanity’s attempt to understand the night sky. With a trim size of 12” x 15.5”, the maps are given plenty of room to breathe with all their glorious colors and details laid out. It’s a beautiful survey of this fascinating intersection of science, art, and the mysticism.
"'The day a white man hits me is the day I die," my great-great-grandfather stated early in life. And he did." --Doria Dee Johnson, great-great granddaughter of Anthony Crawford
(This one's gonna go hard, folks.)
On October 21, 1916 in Abbeville, South Carolina, a white mob surrounded, then beat, stabbed, shot, and finally hanged Anthony P. Crawford; a successful Black entrepreneur and farmer. His "crime?" Having the gall to dispute with a white storeowner over the price of cottonseed. Crawford did not fit the stereotype of the poor and easily-intimidated Negro; quite the contrary --he was easily one of the wealthiest and most influential members of the community. Besides raising 13 children with his wife Tebby, among his other accomplishments were his standing in the local Chapel AME church and the ownership of 427 acres of land --easily 10% of all land owned by Negroes in the county-- and was solvent enough to be able to loan money to other farmers between harvests... even the white ones. Not a bad upcoming for a man who'd been born enslaved in 1865.
Word of this crime spread further and to greater public effect, than (sadly) many other lynchings like it --Anthony's status as a wealthy and successful member of the community ensured that even then-governor Richard Manning demanded answers from the local sheriff. There was considerable press interest and the NAACP even sent attorney Roy Nash to investigate, but ultimately to no avail. While there was a preliminary trial hearing, a grand jury failed to indict any of the mob, and most of the Crawford family --and in fact most Black people-- fled Abbeville after blatant intimidation by many of the town's white population. (Among this mass exodus were Lewis Alfred Ellison, father of future author Ralph Waldo Ellison --see Lesson #10 in this series.) Scattered, the family would eventually rediscover one another generations later (mostly by way of the aforementioned AME church), and in 2016 Crawford's descendants solemnly dedicated a historical marker in remembrance of their brutally murdered patriarch.
(Yeah, anyone still hazy on the origins of The Great Migration?)
Anyway --my summary isn't properly honoring the man and his family; please take some time to read a much more detailed and personal account by Doria Dee Johnson, Anthony's great-great-granddaughter.
La collégiale Saint-Vulfran, Abbeville, Somme (80)
De passage à Abbeville le 30 mai 2012, mon temps est compté dans cette petite ville aux portes de la Baie de Somme. Je me contente donc de prendre le temps de visiter la collégiale de Saint-Vulfran. Je ne le regrette pas : quel édifice ! C’est le joyau gothique de la cité, qui appartient aujourd’hui à la commune.
Façade de la collégiale Saint-Vulfran
The Abbeville Press and Banner, South Carolina, April 24, 1912
Collégiale de Saint-Vulfran (XVI century) Flamboyant Gothic, typical early French Renaissance, in Abbeville (Somme) Taken: December 2017 (iPhone SE)