John Payne Cabin Tank Top

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The Payne Cabin has been carefully reassembled on the grounds of the Mountain Life Museum in Blairsville, GA. The original cabin was built by John Payne and his brothers just before John and his brothers volunteered for the Confederate Army. It was built for John’s new wife, Louisa, and their eventual seven children. The cabin was built in the Young Cane District and moved to its present location behind the Butt-Mock Home. One of John's brothers and two of his wife’s brothers died fighting for the Confederacy. John helped found Pleasant Hill Church. Later, he supervised roads in Union County. He is buried at Pleasant Hill church next to his brother David and their wives. All of the replacement logs are from land once belonging to John Payne.

I am self-taught as a photographer beginning in 1971 when I was stationed in Germany in the U.S. Army. I bought a 35mm Yashica Electro 35 and took photos across Europe over the course of the next two years. Taking a course in photo developing on the Army post allowed me to experiment with different techniques, as well. Over the past 40-plus years, I have progressed through a variety of 35mm cameras until I entered the digital age in 1992 with my first Sony Mavica. It's "astounding" 1.3 megapixels was state-of-the-art for the time, but I now look back at the grainy photos taken with it and shudder to think how much better they'd have been with today's technology. I now live in the Appalachian Mountains of north Georgia which abound...