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| katmom |
Posted - Oct 13 2012 : 12:28:51 PM
Is this the plight of small town/rural America?
I had to run up to a local farming community...and while there decided to drive around.. yaya, I know that gas is almost $4 a gal... but,,, you just never know what you are gonna see...
I posted a couple more pics on my blog...
We live on the fringe of wheat/hay farming land... and there are about a dozen rural farm communities around us.... some look like ghost towns while others have learned to capitalize on their ruralness with lots of main road Vintage/antique shops & quaint eateries... but for many, other than the highway running through the 'center' of town,,, there isn't much to attract people to stop and visit.
It's sad to see some of these small towns just dry up, leaving only a few residents,,, and building just melting into the earth.
I love keeping my camera in my purse, you just never know when you will see an interesting building.
>^..^<
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| Emily Anna |
Posted - Oct 13 2012 : 8:40:26 PM
I would love to live in a town like Whistle Stop on "Fried Green Tomatoes"! Love those little towns with the neat old buildings with charm!
Emily |
| prariehawk |
Posted - Oct 13 2012 : 5:50:08 PM
My grandparents lived in a small southern Illinois town. It had two churches, two taverns, a family grocery, and a funeral home. Finally even the funeral home had to close. I have no idea what's left there now.
Cindy
"Vast floods can't quench love, no matter what love did/ Rivers can't drown love, no matter where love's hid"--Sinead O'Connor
"In many ways, you don't just live in the country, it lives inside you"--Ellen Eilers
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| queenmushroom |
Posted - Oct 13 2012 : 5:07:00 PM
My town has a population of about 23. My son is literally the only child in it.
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| Okie Farm Girl |
Posted - Oct 13 2012 : 4:23:02 PM
Love that last bldg. How picturesque!! Yep, it is sad to see so many towns drying up.
Mary Beth
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www.Oklahomapastrycloth.com/blog
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| katmom |
Posted - Oct 13 2012 : 1:23:20 PM
Oh how I wish I could travel across the USA documenting rural cities via my camera....hmmm, I just might have to hook up my vintage trailer next summer & peruse the back roads of rural America....
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom.
"Is it time for my Dirt Manicure yet!"
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://www.graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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| Bear5 |
Posted - Oct 13 2012 : 12:46:19 PM
Thanks for sharing your pictures. Interesting.
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
