An easy drive east and we come to the Museum of
Appalachia, John Rice Irwin’s fields and
woods filled with cabins, barns, work buildings and some livestock typical of
old rural Appalachia. The buildings
include a log church house and one room school building carefully moved from
original locations in the country and reassembled there for tourists and the
rest of us to visit and get a tiny feel for life a few years ago in this part
of Tennessee in and around the green Cumberland mountains. Small
pastures border the entrance road and it is in these fields we often find
subjects for our photographs. We noticed
the quite small and very, very cute baby goats a couple of months ago when they
were almost to short to reach their mother for milk. Today, the nanny and her
two kids were in the field near the road. They are small animals, full of energy and
typical goat rambunctiousness. We got
these photos then went into the front building for a simple Sunday lunch.
See a neat draft horse from the field toward this old barn at our commercial photography blog site, first page on the blog. The Museum of Appalachia is a fine visit if you are in the area or passing through on I75.
