Photographs: Black Mountain, N.C. — family and friends at summer camp
Book 2, Page 117 ·1923–1930
Transcription
Pencil heading at top of page:
Black Mountains N. C. —
A grid of seven sepia snapshots with pencil captions:
Upper left — two girls standing outdoors, one taller in light dress, one smaller in dark.
Dee + Margaret Reid
Upper center — a group seated on a porch: several adults arranged in a row.
Harry Parker + Mrs. Sass — Nancy + Margaret Reid
Right of center — a row of women seated outdoors at left, two women standing at right. Caption written between the prints, in pencil:
Margaret R. Nancy Joan Julien Mrs. Sass + A. F. W.
[The initials “A. F. W.” are Amy FitzSimons Walker, the compiler.]
Lower left — two girls in white dresses holding bouquets.
Lower center — a small group of children, some in costume or with arms raised, beside a small wooden building. Caption beneath:
Dee + Frances Claypool Pickens + Stanley Claypool ← Dee — Mary Anne → Pickens — Dee + Mary Anne
Lower right — two girls in light dresses standing on a lawn.
Bottom row — a small swimming snapshot at left of a girl in a dark bathing suit on a dock at the water’s edge, and a similar snapshot at right of a child in a light bathing suit on a dock.
AI Notes
A loose-leaf lined-paper album page headed in pencil ‘Black Mountains N. C.’ with seven small sepia snapshots mounted in a loose grid. Captions in pencil identify family and friends including Dee, Margaret Reid, Harry Parker, Mrs. Sass, Nancy, Joan Julien, Frances and Stanley Claypool, Pickens and Mary Ann Walker. The lower row shows two swimming-attire snapshots beside a small landscape print. ‘Dee’ is the canonical form of Emma Dee Walker, b. 18 Oct 1915; the surname captioned alongside Frances and Stanley reads ‘Claypool’; the initials beside Mrs. Sass read ‘A. F. W.’ (Amy FitzSimons [Walker]).
Black Mountain, a small town in Buncombe County east of Asheville, was — like Flat Rock a few miles south — a summer refuge for Lowcountry and Coastal Plain families escaping the heat and disease of the deeper South. The Walkers boarded with “Mrs. Broadfoot” each summer through the 1920s (see p116). Pickens Jr.'s Camp Carolina at Brevard, mentioned on p116, was founded in 1924 and is still operating; Rockmont (for girls) was its sister camp.