Inside the convenient store of the 1970’s. The store still stands not far from my house but unfortunately has been abandon for many decades. On the left is the retired sheriff and to the right is the owner Hank who had been the county highway commissioner.
I spent 55 years as a commercial and documentary photographer. I lived in Appalachia since I was 3 years old and the disappearing culture has always been my primary documentary interest. Now I’m glad I preserved decades of these images, over 100,000, because they’re pretty much gone but I’m always on the lookout for something or someone I missed.
The second image is from a serpent handling church service in the mountains of East Tn.