The Dirt Road

This was all at a time when Auburn, Alabama was a much smaller town (late 1970s, early 1980s). I grew up on Apache Street in the Stage Road subdivision. It was near the railroad tracks that run through town, and there was a lot of undeveloped land in the area. These days, however, almost all remnants of that landscape are gone, having been developed into other neighborhoods and various commercial businesses.

I had toyed with the idea of drawing a map that tried to capture the essesnce of my remembrances of that childhood. I knew my memories were probably already quite faulty (one tends to idealize and romanticize an enjoyed childhood), but I also knew that every year that passed without me drawing such a map, the less accurate it would ultimately be.

So, finally, I took some time over a week in the beginning of 2012 and sketched out the following map of the area fondly known as "The Dirt Road".

Topics
 · animals
 · auburn_university
 · bridges
 · camp_hill
 · cemeteries
 · chewacla_state_park
 · churches
 · creeks
 · foraging
 · libraries
 · little_texas
 · loachapoka
 · maps
 · milling_about
 · notasulga
 · puzzle_parties
 · roads_scholar
 · roxana
 · ruins
 · saugahatchee_road
 · schools
 · signposts
 · springvilla
 · stage_road
 · trains
 · tuskegee_national_forest
 · unpaved_roads
 · weather