Lost Americana

Lost Americana A documentary on the abandoning of rural America. As the labor needed to keep a farm running decrea

06/27/2026

Who else has wasted a night watching Nate the Hoof Guy ?

Small town little league fields. If you follow along you know the documentary project is all me (). You may also know ...
06/09/2026

Small town little league fields. If you follow along you know the documentary project is all me (). You may also know I just put out a book documenting the most interesting/best high school gyms in Illinois, . I get asked a lot of I'm going to do football or baseball fields book next. The answer is "no," but let's just say I've been documenting them along the way across rural America. While small town teams have issues different than suburban or urban towns. The death of small teams and house leagues, in exchange for expensive travel ball teams and fake-turf sports complexes. Almost makes these photos as easy to get in Suburban Chicago as it is in rural Pennsylvania.

Quaker Oats , Owosso, .
06/07/2026

Quaker Oats , Owosso, .

Share this with a friend who get excited when they come upon a bridge like this in the wild. Nothing like crossing an ol...
05/24/2026

Share this with a friend who get excited when they come upon a bridge like this in the wild. Nothing like crossing an old-metal truss bridge on a back country road.

They don't make playgrounds like this anymore. That's why you gotta stop and let your kids take a whirl. Hope this one i...
05/23/2026

They don't make playgrounds like this anymore. That's why you gotta stop and let your kids take a whirl. Hope this one in Owosso, Michigan is still standing. Throwback to 2015.

1892. ~We did this to ourselves. We saved a dollar on the can of soup at the big box chain, but that meant family owned ...
05/22/2026

1892. ~We did this to ourselves. We saved a dollar on the can of soup at the big box chain, but that meant family owned grocery in town went under. Yeah, we all kinda thought they felt they were better than us, but they sponsored the little league teams and school plays. Eighty cents of every buck we spent there stayed in our town. Your misfit cousin Jimmy could get a job there. Now he's doing m**h in the vacant school after it consolidated into the neighboring town. Grandma is working as a greater at Walmart, because she lost the secretary job she had when the company moved to Shenzhen. We did this to ourselves. One dollar at a time.

Small town double feature, & combo. Kingston Mines, 61539.
05/21/2026

Small town double feature, & combo. Kingston Mines, 61539.

Y'all talking about gravel roads & dirt roads, but how about them grass roads. Spring time in the Midwest. .
05/20/2026

Y'all talking about gravel roads & dirt roads, but how about them grass roads. Spring time in the Midwest. .

Budweiser lives here. in the alley of the side of an old bar. , .
05/19/2026

Budweiser lives here. in the alley of the side of an old bar. , .

One of the few times I wasn't upset I couldn't get closer. This was in suburban New Lenox outside of Chicago. Urban spr...
05/18/2026

One of the few times I wasn't upset I couldn't get closer. This was in suburban New Lenox outside of Chicago. Urban sprawl already has this placed pegged as the next subdivision and the background was nothing but power lines and new townhomes.

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