I’m not sure how well this is going to work, but let’s give it a try. I discovered a week or two ago that Google Maps Street View now includes Greenbrier (when I looked a year or so ago it didn’t). The image below is the view from heart of downtown Greenbrier: the center (more or less) of the intersection of County Road 10 and Greenbrier Road. You’re looking due east. If you click repeatedly on either the left or the right arrow in that directional circle in the upper left of the picture, you’ll turn yourself all the way around without moving from that spot, and get a look at the entire place. When you get back to the due-east position and proceed forward along that road, the first driveway on the right that you get to will be that of the house that I’ve been referring to as my grandparents’ house. (When I was 9 we moved there, but that part of the story is yet to come. One of my sisters and her husband live there now.) You’ll have to click a lot, as the driveway is about a quarter of a mile (.4km) down the road. The next driveway is the house that belonged to the aunt and uncle with whom I was mostly living at this point in the story.
Since the view is limited to what could be photographed from a car on the road, you can’t really see the houses, or much of the farm. But if you stand in the crossroads and go straight south on Greenbrier Road, everything on your left for a mile or so (1.6km) belongs to the family farm.
Clicking on the “View Larger Map” button takes you to Google Maps, where you can get a bigger view. That might be a good idea anyway, as I think navigation may be faster there.
Unfortunately the images are sort of dim and blurry. But this is really not dramatically different from the way the place looked in the 1950s and ’60s. Some things are different, and there is more pavement, but a time traveller from 1960 would recognize it.
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