Getting At Description

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As for Tallahassee itself, it was exactly what I had hoped to find it: a typical Southern town; not a camp in the woods, nor an old city metamorphosed into a fashionable winter resort; a place untainted by "Northern enterprise," whose inhabitants were unmistakably at home, and whose houses, many of them, at least, had no appearance of being for sale. It is compactly built on a hill,— the state capitol crowning the top,—down the pretty steep sides of which run roads into the open country all about. The roads, too, are not so sandy but that it is comparatively comfortable to walk in them—a blessing which the pedestrian sorely misses in the towns of lower Florida: at St. Augustine, for example, where, as soon as one leaves the streets of the city itself, walking and carriage-riding alike become

Torrey, Bradford. A Florida Sketch-Book (p. 74). . Kindle Edition.
 
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^^^^^Above are two ways I get at the description of a place. In this example the place is Tallahassee in 1895. The writing and the photo occurred in 1895 at Tallahassee. The writer filled a book with observations of Tallahassee and the surrounding county (Leon).

Plus my people are from Tallahassee since 1825, and I'm well acquainted with the area.

I often use Tallahassee for story locatrion, and photos-experience-memoirs is how I capture the description.
 
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A rendering of Verdura drawn in 1867 by my 2nd great grandfather.

It was 12,000 square feet of house under roof. Bui;t in 1832. The entry was raised to make it hard for Indians to get inside. The bottom floor was kitchen, storage, servant quarters. There were 10 bedrooms on the 3rd floor, and the entire 2nd floor was a ballroom and dining room.
 
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