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Battle of Ramsour's Mill

Storm Clouds

I was assigned to photograph the Battle of Ramsour's Mill Celebration and Reenactment at a historic site in Lincolnton today. Due to a low turn out of reenactors this year, they chose not to do an actual Revolutionary War battle simulation (bummer) and the weather scared people off too.

There were actually over a hundred spectators when I arrived, but they quickly dispersed after the afternoon's demonstrations (below). With few visitors interacting with the reenactors I didn't have much to photograph, but I got all that I needed anyway and was able to spend the down time learning a thing or two about history myself.

And I think I must have spent half an hour watching this line of thunder storms roll in and precipitate (pun intended) a mass retreat from the battlefield. As ominous as the sky was, the storms turned out to be pretty mild.

Battle of Ramsour's Mill

Dotson's

Dotson's
Dotson's Fish Fry owner Dennis Dotson poses for a portrait in the dining room of his now closed restaurant in Belmont on Wednesday January 5, 2011. Due to declining business, Dotson says he decided not to reopen the 50 year-old business after closing for a Christmas break.