In the Cage

In the Cage

Inside Kenyon Hall, Emporia, Kansas – On my first walk-through of the building, I trudged through endless expances of broken glass, piles of abandoned materials rotting in hallways, profanity-laced spray paint, then find an entrance to a caged-in area resembling a...
Balcony Entrance

Balcony Entrance

Inside Kenyon Hall, Emporia, Kansas – 3rd Floor – Wild color and murals were among the biggest surprises as I explored the upper reaches of Kenyon Hall. After the College of Emporia closed in 1973, it was owned for a time by “The Way”, a controversial...
Bass Pipes

Bass Pipes

Inside Kenyon Hall, Emporia, Kansas – Underneath the heart of (what was once) a pipe organ’s sound generating instruments is a nest of wooden reed pipes which, unless I’m mistaken, provided the bass. The organ itself is long gone, but wooden and brass...
Scavanger Hunt

Scavanger Hunt

Antique American Standard Master Clock – Mary Herbert Education Center, Emporia, KS The local camera club is staging a scavanger hunt</> over the next few days. The list includes 60 different subject we need to try to find. The is my first find of the batch,...