Steps in time

 Steps in time

The old back porch steps leading to the kitchen addition of the old 1900 Towles house we once dwelt in at Crawfordville. When Louis Gavin the ex slave built the home for John and Lucille Towles, it was a four square, with a dog trot down the middle and two equally sized rooms on either side. Mrs Lucille lived in the home long after John passed on, herself going blind. In the halls and over the thresholds her cane paths were worn. The back room to the right, before the kitchen addition years later, was her kitchen, the tall tongue in grove narrow boards black with soot from her little wood burning stove. A miracle she never burned the home down. 

The house fortunately still exists today in Sopchoppy, repurposed over the years next to the depot having several businesses occupy it. My two sons, Landon and Jordon, the Tallahassee Democrats my father read, the pickled pigs feet he ate.