An Artist Reveals the #1 Abandoned Location

August 03, 2014  •  Leave a Comment

It's above 100 degrees and walking through the small town in Utah.  A great local artist asked me what I like to photograph, and kindly recommended a great place to go about 100 miles away in the middle of nowhere.  A town left where brave men and women lived to make a life and a future for their children.  A not so simple life, hard, and unforgiving in the middle of the desert. Oil was drilled, and freight cars pulled in slowly in the middle of the night.  A woman who lived here, drove her daughter to town every day one hour each way to ensure her child received an education.  There was no running water in this town, and a post office the size of a small bathroom.  One of the last residents left about four to five years ago.  This place had feelings, emotions, life and soul, this gem was called home.

 

 


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