Sunday, September 20, 2009

Zeppelin photography

I purchased this book on May 19, 2005, from Amazon's Used Marketplace. I read this book in high school like everyone else, but I didn't read this copy until two months ago. 

To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee.


 From the inside cover:

"Please Return 
           if found.
This is my life. 
(Even if I can't stand English Class)"

Scattered:
"4501 Lininger Ln
Dickinson, TX! 77539
337-1394

Melissa Baumanco [sp?]"

The address now belongs to an aerial photography business. I'm guessing the operation is run from home. The Google street view near this address shows houses set back off an old gray road. Everything is grassy and shaded by trees, which reminds me of Lee's description of Maycomb: "Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer's day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum."

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