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The Dearing Home Place

The Dearing Homeplace, approximately 1886.

There has been no stirring in her henhouse. No rooster has sounded. Neither have her children. Polly Dearing is up before all of them. She stands outside the kitchen door…

Skater’s Paradise

Photo by Leslie Feinberg.

In Appalachia, there are so many collapsing old structures, like the coal mining towns from the last post, that are being reclaimed by forests and lost to time. You could…

Coal Country

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I’m a sucker for deserted places–old buildings, sometimes entire towns that were once bustling but have been left and forgotten. Hand me my camera and drop me by an empty…