Voices from Small Places - Arcadia, TX
G. Grant
March 29, 2014
Arcadia, Texas
Photograph #10
Title: Syrup Mill
"This old syrup mill belonged to my great grandparents, Jake & Dee Smith (Big Dad & Big Momma). When I was growing my own sugar cane to make into ribbon cane syrup my Uncle & I STOLE it from my great aunt Ruby Dee Smith who lived on the property. We slipped in on a Sunday morning while she was at Church by coming in through the backwoods across somebody else's property. It was on its side covered with briars and fire ants but we picked it up with a chain and front end loader and took it back to my house. I then had it restored and returned it back to the property it came from."
