My “Muse” now online
My family’s farm and our struggle to keep it is the inspiration behind the title song on my upcoming CD, “BlackTop Road” We’re trying to get more of an online presence for the farm and today put up a facebook page with more info about the land and lots of cool pix. Check it out:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=691388092&ref=name#/pages/Hammett-Farm-c1791/62758972751?ref=mf
from the page: “Drive down Hammett Bridge Rd in Greer, SC and you will find subdivisions, apartment complexes, stripmalls and of course a bridge and road bearing the Hammett family name. You may think the Hammetts were the “Trumps” of this area, people who came in and built all of this and named it after themselves. You would be wrong. As you pass by a small piece of green pasture, a little white wooden sign humbly, yet proudly declares, ” Hammett Farm, c.1791″ This is the true legacy of the Hammett family, a beautiful piece of land in the upstate of South Carolina. Originally part of the Cherokee Trading Trail, farmed by the Hammett family from 1791 until this day. Over the years has produced cotton, peanuts, and other crops as well as cattle and eggs. Now primarily a cattle farm as well as a greenhouse run by original Hammett descendant Sarah Hammett Johnson, the 7th generation of her family on the land. The Hammetts have held onto their land for over two hundred years through Civil War, Reconstruction, two World Wars and the Great Depression, but now find their historical legacy threatened due to over-development. Greer is the fastest growing area in the state of SC and the farm has found itself in the middle of a blooming suburbia of look-a-like houses and strip malls. Recent road construction resulted in the loss of land as well as dozens of old-growth trees unnecessarily cut. The Hammetts remain determined to keep their land as they feel it both a right and a responsibility to honor their history as well as the earth.”