My first errand this morning is to give a big “thank you” to my web guru Chris who has been busy trying to decipher my ideas of how a Blog Site should look and put them into a real site in real time. I threw a bunch of ideas and a couple of photos in an email and this morning I opened up a site. I am not ready to go online with it but hopefully I will be posting as soon as Monday. I do hope you all will be a part of the blog site as well as Facebook because I believe both will combine to give you more information and stories of the Tara façade, and the work that is being done. This morning my photo is of David Selznick sitting on the porch of Tara intently reading. I do not know when this was taken but believe it was prior to the shoot as everything on the house appears to be intact and the set dressing is not complete. The next photo is of a piece of the façade in the barn and a shot of the volunteers who have worked so hard. And the last photo is of me the other day standing in front of the fence line that rings the Crawford-Talmadge House. These photos are important to me as they show that David O. Selznick had to endure times of separation and loneliness as he took on the project at hand. It always seems that we remember the “final cut” of some great person but forget all the times they may have struggled. The pieces of the Tara façade remind me that even the greatest of achievements can be turned to dust and that ultimately, as Selznick said, “all of Hollywood is a façade” and therefore as fragile as these pieces of the Tara façade that I now struggle to restore. My faith tells me that while this project is fun and fulfilling, there is nothing on this side of eternity that will last forever and all I can do is do my best and seek the betterment of those around me. And the final photo is of me standing in front of the fence during latest Tara façade tour. On a pretty day, with a little bit of breeze there is no better place than “inside the gate” with a few friends who wish to hear the story of the Tara façade. On Monday as I met with the ladies from CNN they commented on the beauty of the surroundings of the Crawford-Talmadge Plantation and…they were right. The work on the Tara façade continues but so does the telling of the story. For many will never get to stand in the shade and look to the old dairy barn. The will have to “take the tour” via the information on Facebook, the upcoming Blog site and of course the book (The Official Guide to the Saving Tara Project) that is now available for purchase. Selznick understood the job was not quick or easy and so do we. You keep following the work and telling the tales and I’ll keep posting and giving you more to share…as there will be more to do tomorrow….as tomorrow is, another day. I’ll be waiting for you up at the gate. Peter
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:35:50 +0000
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