authentic you say?

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. - Mark Twain

Finished final project for Ed White's class on Roland Barthes

What do Roland Barthes and Tori Amos have in common?

llisten: American Doll Posse

• I am fascinated with self-sustaining microtowns because I can see the borders.

Haile Plantation - Gainesville, FL

Roseland - Chesterfield, VA

Speaking of authentic, have you seen Jamestown, Virginia's big hubboo about America's Birthday?

The celebrations brought the Queen of England (does anyone else find this strange?), the news boasts "real Indians"

and there are modern images of reinactors of the apparent "first settlers" of the area - not only this, but the events are sparking everyone's interest in boasting their town around here as "special" too...who's the oldest? the most authentic? the best? Petersburg, where I was born, is struggling to claim something as their own unique history to promote to the traffic of I-95.