by Dave | Sep 2, 2007 | Kansas, Small Towns
Once at the heart of a thriving lead and zinc mining area, Galena is now a ghost town on the bottom right corner of Kansas. For reading on the history of the town check Galena, on Legends of America.
by Dave | Sep 2, 2007 | Kansas, Small Towns
Weir City
by Dave | Aug 21, 2007 | Kansas, Small Towns
Drinkwater-Shriver Mill, Cottonwood Falls In these glimpses of dissolving towns and industry, what really draws my eye is the incredible power of those forces that pull all of these temporal realities back into dust. It’s an ongoing drama. On these older...
by Dave | Aug 19, 2007 | Cityscapes, Kansas, Small Towns
Larned, Kansas
by Dave | Jul 26, 2007 | Black and White, Kansas, Small Towns, Soft Lights
Cedar Point, Kansas The first structure at this site was a dam and sawmill built in 1867 by O.H. Drinkwater, who also gave the town its name. Eight years later, in partnership with Peter Paul Shriver, the sawmill and dam were replaced with the stone structures of the...
by Dave | Jul 25, 2007 | Kansas, Landscape, Small Towns
South of Cedar Point, KansasRay Randolph contributed a work of fiction inspired by this scene.Please check it out HERE. (Thanks Ray!)
by Dave | Jul 23, 2007 | Kansas, Small Towns, Soft Lights
Chase CountyThe photo makes this little unincorporated spot in the Flint Hills seem bigger than it is. A small school house rests across the intersecion. It is also painted in simple whites, and seems so very quiet.
by Dave | Jul 21, 2007 | Kansas, Small Towns
The Sutton Food Store isn’t here anymore but the Butter-Krust bread sign still dresses up a wall in Eskridge.
by Dave | Jul 18, 2007 | Kansas, Small Towns
I may be off a town, but I’m pretty sure this scale house was on the edge of Sylvia, Kansas. It was one of those contrasty days with no texture in the sky. A photographer with better sense would avoid this, but I sometimes like the clear, featureless skies, the...
