Beautfort, North Carolina
( by Donna Sage Hunter.)
I have attached a picture I took of an old Civil War
Jail and Court from the 1800s town square of Beaufort, North Carolina, that
has been preserved for the tourists.. Beaufort is the 3rd oldest town in
North
Carolina that lies along the Atlantic Oceanside...We go to visit
where Black Beard the Pirate once owned a home and the Old Burial Grounds
with many a savory character buried there with many stories to match also
from Revolutionary times as well as during the Civil War in this area and
burial grounds surrounding an old, white clapboard church with gothic shaped
windows full of colored picture glass and the grounds are covered with
ancient pecan trees full of birds and squirrels overhead, the world is shut
out and the past whispers too you, as you step amongst the old graves,
flowered bushes and wisteria in full color everywhere...the grounds covered
with moss on old crevices and bricked graves...wild ponies live on a island
just a stones throw across the bay, brought over on ships from centuries
before, still wild along the beach, grazing on the grasses and bushes, manes
blowing and whinny's heard on the salty air....In the preserved old part of
Beaufort, in the town square, beside the Old Jailhouse and Courtroom is
stocks still standing as testament to the people that were placed in these
for punishment in those days...I looked from the right side of the clear
paned windows into the big, old building and looked thru to the other side
of the room thru the other window only seeing the old trees thru them...I
had been taking pictures of all kinds of awesome things and thought as I
clicked off another digital picture how really cool it would be too get a
picture of something in the hazy emptiness in the sultry, humid, sunny glow
inside...later, as I looked thru my photo shots, much to my surprise I
noticed some figures on the bottom right side of my photo of inside the old
place...it seems to be a woman with a man with a hat, maybe a confederate
hat sitting next to her...I've sent this to a couple of sites and have had
this looked at by many....I thought since I was here at this site checking
out a friends website, I would share this picture and the story of how I
came by it...
Donna
Sage Hunter
02 05 07
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