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• Cool Water: Dripping Springs, New Mexico
  on May 3, 2013
  The hike from the Dripping Springs Natural Area visitor center to a cluster of lovely old ruins tucked back in the Organ Mountains is only about 1.5 miles. However, if you arrive on, say, Thanksgiving, and find the access gate locked, your hike will...
• Pat Garrett Really Should've Stayed the Night: Organ, New Mexico
  on Apr 19, 2013
  Organ, New Mexico isn’t really a ghost town these days, but I’m gonna make it look like one. Sorry, good people of Organ. I’ll explain in a minute.Organ is named for the razor-spired Organ Mountains visible to the south, which were themselves n...
• Ecstatic Ghosts: Palmetto Park and Pond, N. Augusta, SC
  on Apr 13, 2013
  Some ruins draw us in because of what’s left behind, even if we don’t know who was there or what they did. Other times, we may know a little history, making what remains all the more evocative. Then there are those locations where the passage of...
• Dancing with My Selves: Club Royal, N. Augusta, SC
  on Apr 1, 2013
  Back in late 2004, I wrote a post titled “Honky Tonk Hell” about an abandoned Christian mission located on the site of the lost town of Hamburg, South Carolina. The “hell” of the title was in reference to this particular building being the cr...
• City of Dust at WHEELS Museum Gala
  on Mar 26, 2013
  My favorite place to photograph in Albuquerque--by far--is the long-vacant Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Rail Yard. A couple years ago I did an epic post on this “industrial cathedral,” recounting its storied history and featuring lots of photos...
• The Augusta Confederate Monument
  on Mar 23, 2013
  Before we leave Georgia, let’s take a quick look at the Augusta Confederate Monument, located in the grassy median of the 700 block of Broad Street, across from the Marion Building. Seventy-six feet tall with a Georgia granite base and the rest ent...
• A Sheltering Grave: The Tale of Wylly Barron
  on Mar 6, 2013
  In 2005, I wrote a piece about Magnolia Cemetery and some of the people buried there. One of the most interesting stories was that of Wylly Barron. At the time, I didn’t have any photos of Wylly’s grave. But I paid him a visit last fall and final...
• The Last Piece of Union Station
  on Mar 3, 2013
  In the last post, which featured the Genesta Hotel, I mentioned the importance of Union Station in the development of 8th (aka Jackson) Street, once known as the “White Way” for its bright streetlamps, which burned all night long, guiding travele...
• The Genesta Hotel on the White Way
  on Feb 24, 2013
  Eighth (aka Jackson) Street was once one of the most bustling thoroughfares in Augusta, Georgia. Union Station, a large railroad depot built in 1903, was located at 525 8th Street and all along 8th, from the station to the Savannah River, there were...
• What Happened to Hulse's?
  on Feb 17, 2013
  Three posts ago I said that I had four more locations to document from last fall’s trip to the greater Augusta, GA area and then it would be back to the Wild West. Well, I can’t always be believed and I’m nothing if not a completist. So, to ens...

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