Back to Work on Another Book

This little barn on U.S. 27 just south of Rock Spring in Walker

County, Georgia has borne many signs over the years. But if you

dig through those layers of paint you will find SEE ROCK CITY.

 

In October, 1994 I was commissioned by See Rock City, Inc. to find and photograph all the still-standing barns that had at any time been painted with the famous "See Rock City" sign. They gave me a box of old file cards, the only existing records of the locations of the barns they had painted through the years.

Within a few months I became aware that there were other Rock City barns in existence that had been lost from Rock City's records. You can read about how that happened here.

As I continued my search, following Rock City;s old records, I discovered about 20 more such barns. I always thought of them as "lost" barns. The ones I found were included in my best-selling book Rock City Barns: A Passing Era. (Still available at amazon.com and used bookstores.)

After the book came out I received a number of letters telling me about other barns that had been missed. I also did some exploring on my own. And then I sat on the project, doing other things while years passed. But now it's time to get back to work. I need a project to do and I have 50 or so lost barns in my files. That's enough for a book.

I'm editing out the best pictures, re-scanning a few that I scanned too small the first time around, and doing the necessary photoshop work to make each photograph look its best. When that is done, I will ship them off to Michael Largent, the very creative graphic artist who designed my book Georgia: A Backroads Portrait, and begin writing brief essays for the text.

I don't have money to publish a book, but I will be submitting proposals to publishers and also looking into sites such as GoFundMe. Meanwhile, if you happen to know a book publisher. . .

Visit my online storefront at https://davejenkins.pixels.com/ to see a selection of my photographs for sale.

The second edition of my book, Backroads and Byways of Georgia, originally scheduled for December, will not be released until June, 2023. 

Photograph and text copyright 2022 David B.Jenkins.

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