Watercolor
I painted this scene years ago and spent many peaceful times in the hallway of this barn that affords a view of Paris Mountain near Greenville, S.C. This barn is located in the northern section of Greenville County, S.C., in the Mountain View Community.
My grandfather, Carl Clyde Crain, owned this barn when I was a boy. His father, "Ben," owned it before my grandfather, whom I called "Pa," bought it. I've watched Pa milk cows in this hallway. One evening as he "put up" one of his mules in a barn stall for the night, the mule kicked as he entered his stall. I heard Pa say, "I've got to cut down on his corn."
Pa and Ma sold milk and butter to a few folk in Greenville, S.C., and I loved to ride with them on Saturday mornings on their "milk and butter route." Their handful of "city folk" customers liked "real milk and butter, right from the cow." Ma made a little money to spend at Woolworth's or at a bakery located on Greenville's north side. At that bakery, which featured "Bost" products, one could buy (to borrow a phrase from songwriter Johnny Cash) "those day-old cakes mighty cheaply."
