April 4, 2015 (Friday)
On a beautiful spring day in the U.S.A., I had a good 20.30 mile run from home to the northern outskirts of Griffin, GA which would be, I guess, just south of Sunny Side, GA. The day was bright with a skimmer of clouds. The temperature was comfortable without the summer’s humidity.
I ran through Lovejoy, Hampton, Sunny Side, and Pomona. An interesting note was the historical marker in Sunny Side with information on John McIntosh Kell. He lived and died at his home there and is buried in Griffin. It noted that his friend, Sidney Lanier, visited there and wrote his poem, Corn.
I thought about that in the last few miles of the run. I tried to imagine how the area was during that post Civil War era. My mind brought up Lanier’s poem, The Song Of The Chattahoochee. I chanted the line from the poem – “Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall.” I’ve always thought that was pure Georgia in great poetry since I first heard and read it in school back in the ’50’s in Trion.
Well, that filled my head as I finished my run. It made the last few miles the best of the run as I ran them at a faster pace. All-in-all, it was a good day.
Some scenes from the roadster…
New park in Lovejoy, GA
A roadster in Hampton
Mural in downtown Hampton
Historical marker in Sunny Side
Farmland in Sunny Side
Westbrook Running 