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Inn. a similar array of homes on one of the main
I had decided to leave by 6 A.M because streets radiating from downtown. I always
the app on my iPhone indicated that sunrise wonder who built these palatial homes and
would be about 7:13 A.M. I figured it would when they built them. I wonder how what of-
take about an hour to get to Rockingham so ten seems to be a small, rather poor communi-
by sunrise I would be in the country south of ty could support such wealth. Were these peo-
there. I was familiar with Highway 1 as far ple successful farmers who wanted a place in
as Rockingham, but it had been years since I town? Were they the bankers and lawyers? In
stayed on that road south of there. I hoped for Rockingham’s case, were they associated with
two things. First, I hoped there would be a col- the railroad? So many questions.
orful sunrise. Second, I hoped that I would be As I left Rockingham, I realized my tim-
lucky and find something interesting to be in ing was good. The sky was brightening rap-
the foreground of the shot, like an old farm- idly to the east, and some red was beginning
house or barn, so that I would not just have to show. However, for several miles I could
another picture of trees and sky at sunrise. find nothing that would serve as a good frame
As I rolled through Rockingham in the early or foreground for a sunrise shot. Just lots of
light, I noticed again the large, stately homes pine trees. I was about to decide that I had
that line Highway 1 north of the downtown missed my chance when I noticed a lake on the
area. So many small Southern towns have left with a spillway and a nice sunrise reflec-

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