Fourth in a series of articles introducing my new photobook which is now on sale at blurb.com. The last section was Farmscapes and this is closely related. I live in the country - for a time I lived in places like Montgomery Alabama, Midwest City Oklahoma (a suburb of Oklahoma City), and Harrisburg - but those times when I lived "in town" tended to be short-lived. The old adage "You can take the kid out of the country but you can't take the country out of the kid" fits me pretty well.
Country life, for me, is all about sunsets without buildings or other things to block them, foggy mornings, going fishing, etc. But in Pennsylvania, it's a bigger thing than just that. It's the covered bridges - many of which were built in the 1800s and are still in use today, or at least, available to visit. It's the old wooden ferryboats in Millersburg which cross the river, day after day, ferrying passengers and cars to the other side. It's sitting in the park at Millersburg, and watching fireworks exploding over the river. Living in rural America is the place to be!
Dauphin County and its neighboring counties are full of country scenes, from the covered bridges of Perry, Dauphin, and Northumberland Counties, to the ferryboats that have taken passengers across the Susquehanna River from Millersburg to Liverpool for more than a hundred years. On Independence Day fireworks light up the Susquehanna River in Harrisburg and Millersburg; in September, a local school remembers 9-1-1 with a tribute to all the people who lost their lives on September day. In the wintertime, snow blankets the ground with a soft cover. Amish settlements are sprinkled throughout the countryside. And when you look to the west in the evening hours, it is not unusual to see sunsets with barns or trees framed against a fiery sky. On any given day of the year, you need not look far to find something interesting to do or see. It is country living at its finest.
All images copyright 2005-2008 James A. Wheeler or Karen Oudeman.
Contact me at arkansawyer@gmail.com for information on obtaining copies of any of these prints or information on the upcoming 160 page photobook, which will be a "coffee table" style hardcover book complete with paper sleeve cover, initially priced around $60 - which to my cheapskate pocketbooks seems high until I compare the cost to that of eating out at a nice restaurant, which for a family can quickly exceed the cost of this book, and is quickly forgotten.
The series so far:
Photobook 1: The Story
Photobook 2: The Church
Photobook 3: Farmscapes
Photobook 4: Country Living
Photobook 5: Waterscapes
Photobook 6: Wildlife
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