Fascinating and sad.
According to the Oxford American …
The house in the photograph belonged to a man named Tom “T. C.” Boring, a dentist born and raised in Greenwood, whom Eggleston has described as the best friend he ever had in the world. He was the scion of a well-respected Delta family, a sharp and promising Southern archetype who glided his way through the University of Mississippi, Loyola University, and the Navy before coming home to Greenwood and gradually, ungracefully losing his mind.
Full article here. As always, enjoy or don’t.
Not sure why, but Delta eccentrics are the world’s craziest. I’d like to see that Red Ceiling original.
Something in the water, maybe.
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Boo.
Also…Tav Falco, Eggleston’s first dark-room assistant….
You all assume when I clap off beat it’s because I took peyote, right?
Um …