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• After the Depot: Encino, New Mexico
  on May 19, 2013
  I spend a lot of time on US Highway 60. Not only do I travel the road for work, but I often explore its lonelier byways on my days off. Highway 60 once crossed the entire country and in New Mexico these two lanes of blacktop run through the central p...
• 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...
• Then There Were Two: Upper Broad St. Houses
  on Feb 7, 2013
  In the over eight years that I’ve been doing City of Dust, rarely have I ever used the same photo in more than one post. The few times that it’s happened have mostly been mistakes. Hey, I’ve taken a lot of shots; sometimes I forget what I’ve...
• The Reverend Walker's Earthly Home
  on Jan 30, 2013
  “Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.” Henri Cartier-Bresson.You know, it’s hard to argue with Cartier-Bresson. But perhap...
• Death and Loss on D'Antignac Street
  on Jan 21, 2013
  One of the buildings I really wanted to visit on this last trip to Augusta, Georgia was Lam Brothers Food Store at 1024-1026 D’Antignac St. Jack Lam, whose family emigrated from China, opened the store with his father and brother shortly after thei...
• Picturing Twiggs St.: The Dr. S. S. Johnson House
  on Jan 13, 2013
  Back in 2005, I wrote a post called Access Denied in which I described why I hadn’t photographed a particular part of Augusta, Georgia. This area included streets to the south of Walton Way and north of Laney-Walker Boulevard, bounded by Augusta’...
• The Long and Sad Tale of the Goodale Inn
  on Jan 6, 2013
  Back in the 1830’s, just a few years after the dawn of photography, when people were making images on pewter and glass (actually, I think I’d like to make some images on pewter and glass right now), one of the two major pioneers in the field, Wil...
• Movie Time...Again
  on Dec 29, 2012
  It’s been over eight years since I first wrote about the historic Miller Theater in a post entitled, “Movie Time.” Back then, the Arte Moderne facility, commissioned by Frank J. Miller and started in 1938 by famed Chicago theater architect Roy...
• From the Ashes: The Marion Building
  on Dec 10, 2012
  If buildings were ships and fire was ice, then the Marion Building, at 739 Broad St. in Augusta, Georgia, would once have been the Titanic. Designed by G. Lloyd Preacher, who also had a hand in Augusta’s Partridge Inn and Imperial Theater, as well...
• Confederate Boots and Well-Made Wagons
  on Nov 21, 2012
  Let’s head north out of the Doughty Building, last post’s feature, and pay a visit to its neighbor at 301-303 James Brown Blvd, the Lowrey Wagon Works aka the Confederate Boot Factory. I passed this vacant and unmarked structure at the corner of...
• The Doughty Building
  on Nov 14, 2012
  Let’s start our trip back to Augusta, Georgia at the intersection of two of my favorite streets, Ellis and James Brown Blvd (aka 9th St.). In ’03 and ’04 I used to wander around this area a lot and I took many photographs. Later, I did entire p...

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