by jamesp | Nov 9, 2020 | Ghost Towns, Hiking, Landscape, Outdoors, Photography
What is it about abandoned towns that capture the imagination? Growing up in South Dakota, my father took us along on many “explores”, as he called them. Looking for the remnants of the gold mining camps in the Black Hills, he instilled in us a love of... 
by jamesp | Nov 17, 2017 | Ghost Towns, Life on the Road, Photography
One summer ago, I met a lovely family from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at the Krasl Art Fair on the Bluff in St. Joseph, Michigan. She had grown up in West Central South Dakota, and we had a great conversation about the farm country. As it turned out, her grandfather had...