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Original Concept art for Tearful Surrender, and erotic Horror/Fantasy/SciFi Movie. Concept Art by Cassandra Sechler. Visit: tearfulsurrender.com/About-Tearful-Surrender
The sun had set by the time we made it to this empty field fenced off from the random passing tourist. This, in the American mindset, is hallowed ground, the place where the long fight for independence ended and the real work of liberty began.
The surrender ceremony itself was a complicated affair of just the type you'd expect for a great empire taking the first step of a long and lingering fall, and there were plenty of snubs and counter snubs to keep a European courtier entertained. The allied French and American armies filed into this field around noon on October 19 and formed two lines along the road that ran through here. The Americans stood on the right side of the road (where I'm standing), and the French stood on the left. The French were all in full uniform, formed up as if they knew they were one of the greatest armies in the world. The American uniforms were a lot more haphazard, but the men who wore them held their heads high and took their place on the world stage.
At 2 pm, the defeated British arrived and marched down the center of the road, most of them refusing to even look at the Americans. They kept their eyes to the French instead, because at least the French could be called a respectable army. The line then came to a stop before Washington, who sat tall upon his horse. And at the head of that British line stood none other than ... well, some guy named O'Hara. One of General Lord Cornwallis's underlings. Cornwallis was sick, O'Hara said, and even through the centuries I can hear the sigh as Washington rolled his eyes. But Washington just went with it and said, fine. You know what? If an underling's going to surrender, then he's going to surrender to an underling. He pointed O'Hara toward General Benjamin Lincoln, and the might of the British Empire bowed to Washington's subordinate.
Then the British troops marched into the field, stood before General Lincoln, and at his command laid their weapons on the ground. Well, it's probably more accurate to say they threw the guns to the ground, if (American) eye-witnesses are to be believed. But that was good enough. It was over. After six long years of war, the American Revolution was finally ... finally over.
Appomattox Court House / Formal Surrender Ceremony / Union Line at Court House / Confederate Force at Attention / Dignity in Defeat # 1
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Appomattox Court House / Formal Surrender Ceremony / Union Line at Court House / Confederate Force at Attention / Dignity in Defeat / Stacked Arms # 4
Lee's Surrender overshot blanket, ready to weave. This felt good!
I assume that this weaving pattern came from sometime around the Civil War, given the name. I can't wait to actually have it finished!
This is my favorite from the Big Surrender set. It's hard to capture the energy of live music in a still picture, but I think this one does.
No sunny late-fall pictures today. A grey sky, light rain, and the remaining leaves being driven from the trees.
Headed out of Austin again with Brenna Larkin for a pretty neat photo shoot at Longhorn Cavern State Park in Marble Falls, Texas. We stopped by train tracks on the way there.
March 28, 2015
I was on the way to the glass recycling bin, after a fabulous day at the beach, when I noticed that all the lights were on in the abandoned building at the end of the street. So I wandered down and took a closer look. It would appear to be the ravings of a schizophrenic, but perhaps it's some sort of public art piece.