The 12 Foot Room Size:8.5x11 and great grandson

and great grandson

How many times does that happen

second and most striking to me is that he has lived most of his life living within a 10 mile radius of this stop sign

First was that he was standing there waiting for a ride

When the houses were first built for the descendants of the Gee's Bend slaves the government figure out that the tiny houses were too small for the large families that occupied them

The 12 Foot Room Size:8.5x11 and great grandsonThis image was shot in Gee's Bend, Alabama, in one of the remaining Roosevelt Project houses from the 1930's. When the houses were first built for the descendants of the Gee's Bend slaves the government figure out that the tiny houses were too small for the large families that occupied them. The solution was to come back and do additions to the house, which resulted in the addition of what was called the 12 foot room because of its dimensions. While