1. Blacks and whites live in the small clapboard houses and mobile homes tucked between the railroad tracks and the river. 2. A gray clapboard house was decorated with large plastic numbers. 3. Across the courtyard, a maze of footpaths tramped through unmown weeds, another family sells bootleg vodka from another clapboard house. 4. Brick and white clapboard houses dot the hills, and tugboats push barges along the majestic river. 5. But this time, everyone knows who is staying at the gray clapboard house, and a lot of people are scared to death. 6. Clapboard houses and small improvised churches nestle against one another at strange angles as they slowly sink into the bog. 7. Dotting fields of winter wheat are white, turn-of-the-century clapboard houses straight out of Norman Rockwell. 8. Electricity is down and power lines lay like spaghetti between the bright blue clapboard houses. 9. For many American visitors, the Caribbean for decades has brought to mind painted clapboard houses, palm-fringed beaches and rare exotic wildlife. 10. For them, a large clapboard house with an elaborate secret brick-terraced garden off the side behind a high wood plank fence just went on the market. |