
{"id":20812,"date":"2011-09-15T11:09:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T15:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=20812"},"modified":"2011-09-15T11:49:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T15:49:29","slug":"just-down-the-road-in-shangri-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/09\/15\/just-down-the-road-in-shangri-la\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Down the Road in Shangri-La"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Thousand Words<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Jock Lauterer<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2011\/09\/15\/just-down-the-road-in-shangri-la\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1KWords091511.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1KWords091511.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1KWords091511-113x75.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1KWords091511-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1KWords091511-100x66.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI have the best job in the world in the summer when I hit North Carolina\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s backroads that take me to the state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s many community newspapers, where I lead journalism workshops. And it is these modest backroads \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the so-called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Blue Highways\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that provide the unhurried soul with such a rich visual experience. From this summer, here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my favorite \u00e2\u20ac\u0153roadside vernacular\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c just outside of Yanceyville (between Hillsborough and Danville, Va.,) you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll come upon a miniature white-rocked village that is worth a stop just to gawk. According to a 1979 edition of The State magazine, the little village named \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Shangri-La\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is the result of nine years\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 work by the late Henry Warren, a retired farmer who never met a little white rock he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like. Working on the miniature rock village as a hobby from the time he was 77 until his death at 84 in 1977, Henry told reporter James Earl Hester, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The more you build, the more enthused you get.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  So it would seem. Henry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s village includes an old mill, a bank, a gym, a library, a fire station, a church, a theatre, a water tower \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and at the time of his passing he was working on a hospital. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll find Shangri-La on N.C. 86 just across the Caswell County line, set back from the road on the right in the community of Prospect Hill.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A THOUSAND WORDS<\/strong><br \/>\nDo you have an important old photo that you value? Email your photo to jock@email.unc.edu and include the story behind the picture. Because every picture tells a story. And its worth? A thousand words.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/sections\/a-thousand-words\/\">More &#8220;A Thousand Words&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have the best job in the world in the summer when I hit North Carolina\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s backroads that take me to the state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s many community newspapers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":20813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-thousand-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20812"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20815,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20812\/revisions\/20815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}