This month we have a very striking-looking abandoned church, which was built in 1888. There is a companion one-room schoolhouse across the street, built in 1907, but it is nowhere near as photogenic as this church as it was still being used into the early 1970s and so had been kept up until then.
Rural America is dotted with structures just like this one, remnants of history, anchor points to a very different age. Though different, it is still an age whose structures have lessons to teach us about ourselves even today, though the doors are shut and the windows shattered. It is one of the reasons I have enjoyed shooting abandoned places for the past several years. The past, even though it is over, is still very much alive and part of our world, and can be learned from just as readily as one can learn from a present day classroom (or online!) lecture. It is a shame to overlook these lessons, and in many cases we do so at our own peril as a civilization.
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