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Personal Narrative: Main Street Barbeque Of Durant

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On January 21, 2016 at nine in the morning, I was in the parking lot of Main street barbeque of Durant, waiting to begin my assignment. It was 37 degrees Fahrenheit with an overcast sky. Alexis, Stephen, Mathew, and I were on a team together. I have been a resident of Durant for all my life and I have strolled down Main Street numerous times and I have browsed through some of the shops. It was difficult taking of the figurative lenses I wear of familiarity and I tried my best to be observant and map the city from a new perspective. I did not expect to see anything that was unfamiliar to me. Our exploration of downtown Durant focused mostly on the local self-owned businesses therefor we only explored the first four blocks and the shops there. …show more content…

There are a few other statues of painted horses in Durant around the downtown area but the blaze statue is the only one we observed up-close. The first shop we entered was the Hollow Tree. I had never been in the store and the shop owner gave us a thorough tour but we did not catch her name. We did discover that she is Nurse April’s mother. She introduced us to Tessa which made us free coffee and hot chocolate in their little café. The Hollow Tree had a wide variety of merchandise and the owner was extremely hospitable and verbose. The second store we ventured into was the Blessings Christian Book Store. It was small and the books did not completely fill the store but the worker was very friendly and informed us that it had been opened since 2009. The most memorable section of the store for me was a section that had books that were used or donated so shoppers who could not afford expensive items could buy a Bible or a piece of Christian literature for a fraction of the price. The first portion of our journey we had been welcomed but it had been very …show more content…

Our initial intentions were to go to Welborn music store and we were able to see the historical music pieces on the wall like an Indian sitar. We were also told that the building they were located in was a bakery in the 1920’s so the grease would still seep up into the carpet. It was interesting to listen to the history but it did not quiet meet my expectation because I was expecting it to be the best. After we left the music store we looked to our left and saw some old teal tile and a barber pole. We walked down and looked into the window and saw an old barber giving another older gentleman a haircut and it looked like a scene in a movie. At first we doubted if what we were seeing was real. Stephen agreed to get a haircut so we can go into the shop. The interior of the tiny Plaza Barber Shop was completely authentic and it looked like it hadn’t changed in at least fifty years. There was a very old heater in the corner that worked very well but it had a lot of trash behind it and I really hoped it wasn’t a fire hazard but it also looked covered in dust. There were three antique green barber chairs that were placed in the middle of the shop floor. There was also a row of bottles with bright green liquid called Jeris hair tonic that resembled what bugs bunny used in the barber of Seville. The man who was getting a haircut was very humorous and his name was Gene. We had asked what

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