The Voluminous podcast returns with “The Wind That Is in the Grass”, at 90 minutes. In which Lovecraft prepares for his epic bus journey down to Florida, to meet the fifteen year-old Robert H. Barlow for the first time. Lovecraft…

offers travel tips, thoughts on mental health, and a robust breakdown of the latest issue of Weird Tales in preparation for his trip to visit his young friend.

Judging by postcards, the commercial and traffic centre and the first view that travellers would have encountered on stepping down from the bus. Note the end of a long bus seen parked on the left, seeming to indicate a bus terminus. The picture looks like the mid/late 1930s and near enough in time to the 2nd May 1934 point when Barlow and Lovecraft first met. Lovecraft calls the place “De Land” in letters, but the 1920s newspaper title DeLand Sun News suggests it was DeLand locally. Here the picture is newly and imperfectly colourised, due to laying an older colorised postcard over the 1930s b&w, and blending for colour.

Here is the view looking in the other direction (note the same Drugs and Coca-Cola sign) in the 1940s, and the large clock again suggests a terminus.

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