A Long Way From Holmes

Holmes County Archives

A crowd gathered outside a store with a sign advertising a fall opening sale. Two vintage cars are parked in front. The scene appears to be from the mid-20th century.
Three people and a young child riding on a wooden wagon being pulled by a horse, with a small wooden building nearby, under a clear sky.
Black and white photo of a street scene with a group of people gathered outside a building marked 'Olliches County Bank & Trust Co.' An old vehicle is parked nearby, and the people, mostly women dressed in vintage clothing and hats, are engaged in conversation or waiting. Several windows are visible on the building.
  • They owe all of us, for the way that we had to do that they didn't have to do.

    Clementine Redmond

  • We had the land. They had the money.

    Jimmy Brooks