Imagine Then

Each time I pass by the old church on Price Creek road (252 and 245) in Columbia County, sitting in the pecan grove next to the pond, I always think what must have been. Purported to once being a Presbyterian Church, moved to this location by the Dicks years ago for restoration, built without corners, to keep the devil from hiding in a corner.
Today it sits and sits, daily catching the rising sun on its entrance that once had a porch, in the evening the back windows seeing the setting sun. Used now for a storage barn for feed and hay, it is a sad testament to our lack of respect for the old buildings, few ever restored.
It would be grand if every community had funds and land set aside where these old buildings could be moved and restored, like the Tifton agra-rama, or the Perry, Florida homestead.
But, in our age of bordering upon the edge of depression, mental and monetarily, these projects are far from the forefront.
Only the starving artists can afford to photograph, paint and sketch them for future generations.