Knoxville
By: Kai Crouse
Category: Uncategorized
| Aperture: | f/8 |
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| Focal Length: | 28mm |
| ISO: | 100 |
| Shutter: | 1/0 sec |
| Camera: | Canon EOS 7D |
I shot this one while on a confusing and fruitless hunt for artillery shells falsely advertised on the highway. This was somewhere outside of Knoxville at the convergence point between a splendid day and a malefic storm cloud. Over the course of the drive between DC and Nashville the weather went from 51 and gloomy to 83 and flawless and back to an apocalyptic thunder storm. Only the ever changing weather and the numerous and relentless state troopers stalking the highway alerted me to the extensive distance I had covered.
Why does everything in Virginia end with “burg” and everything in Tennessee end with “ville”?
When did I give myself this awful haircut?
Opaque Ghosts 
Great start! Magnificient photo. Keep going. We are very excited to hear from you about your adventure in search of opaque gohosts.
Sweet pic…you’re going to have to give me a quick photography 101 before Thailand. Also, “Burg” and “Ville” used to be terminology used in the south to identify underground gang territories. Don’t mention one while in the other.
Does that mean in the future new towns will end in blood and crip?
It would be better with Kirby in it! 🙂
The Burg/Ville dichotomy has to do with the cultural influences encountered in the New World by the relatively uneducated Scotch-Irish who settled Appalachia in the 18th Century. East of the Cumberland Gap, the primarlly Scottish settlers encountered Hessian and Prussian mercenaries who were assisting the British in their suppression of the revolution. The settlers adopted the German custom of using Burg as a suffix – Lynchburg, Petersburg, even Gaithersburg, Md. West of the gap, the settlers – primarily Irish now (think Tennessee whiskey) ran across the southern fringe of the French trapping industry, which had made its way down from the Great Lakes region on the Ohio and Illinois Rivers. Hence, the use of the French “Ville” in naming their settlements – Nashville, Knoxville, Louisville, Ky. Its just basic history, Kai.
Just off the top of your head?