I'm sitting here working on a paper for a conference here in Chapel Hill in a couple of weeks on trials and race. Mine looks at trials (and appeals) in the early 1830s and links them to the competing ideas about order and justice in southern legal thought. I put Justices Thomas Ruffin and William Gaston in opposition and use their opinions (particularly Gaston's State v. Will and the arguments of counsel -- the Whig B.F. Moore for Will and those of Democrat Attorney General J.R.J. Daniel for the state) to illustrate the competing ideas about use of the legal system to promote order. Sandwiched between Ruffin's 1830 opinion in State v. Mann and Gaston's 1834 opinion in State v. Will was the Nat Turner rebellion. The state's response there ranged from providing militia who engaged in vigilante "justice" and trials that showed a little (maybe not much, but a little) more finely calibrated response to the rebellion. There's a lot to talk about here, but right now I thought I'd take a little break and ask a trivia question.
This one is very, very difficult. It tops my Poe house question from earlier this summer, which I think is the hardest so far. I didn't realize the significance of this building until this summer when I read about it and then went looking for it. In fact, as I was taking pictures of it, I spoke briefly with neighbors -- I think they were understanably suspicious of someone they didn't recognize taking pictures of the house. And they questioned my story of why I was interested in the house -- so I may even have the story wrong, but I don't think so....
But, where is the house? And why is it important?
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Posted by: nfgnbshfdg | September 26, 2012 at 03:52 AM
That's not quite right, nfgnbshfdg. Perhaps a hint is in order?
This is related to one E.A.Poe.
Posted by: Alfred Brophy | September 26, 2012 at 11:36 AM
Talavera in Richmond, VA.
Quoting the Poe Museum's website, "This farmhouse was built in 1838 by the Talley family. The daughter Susan Archer Talley, was a poet and friend of Poe’s sister Rosalie. Poe and his sister spent many evenings here during the summer of 1849. Susan Talley, writing under her married name Susan Weiss, described Poe’s final private reading, given here just two weeks before his death. The Sauer family, manufacturers of flavor extracts, owned the home in the early 1900’s and prevented it from being demolished while newer homes were being built all around it. Talavera remains a private residence and is not open to the public."
Posted by: Owen | September 26, 2012 at 11:28 PM
Very nice, Owen. You got it. FWIW, I think the Sauer faculty is about two blocks away.
Well, that's it for me and building trivia for a while.
Posted by: Alfred Brophy | September 27, 2012 at 08:24 AM